Intake rate definition
Intake rate or "IR" means rate of ingestion, inhalation, or dermal contact, depending on the route of exposure, expressed as the amount of a media taken in, on a per body weight and daily basis, for a specified duration.
Examples of Intake rate in a sentence
Intake rate increases quickly at small bite sizes, but at larger bite sizes the decrease in bite rate and the increase of food loss start to balance the effect of increasing bite size, and intake rate levels off or even declines.
Intake rate is used as measure for performance and is determined by the product of bite rate, and the size of the bite cropped minus the amount lost during transport.
Intake rate in all four species increases proportionally with increasing bite size, however the increase in intake rate is smaller as species are larger.