1.  Rice was their basic food and their most important food crop, far ahead of maize, taro or sago.

2.  Old house sites are regularly revisited as important food sources.

3.  Industrial fishing concentrates on smaller species such as sandeels, which are an important food for larger fish, seabirds and marine mammals.

4.  And the woodchuck has always been an important food source for coyotes, foxes, bobcats and other predators, including man.

5.  Bananas are an important food in impoverished and developing nations, along with rice, wheat and corn.

6.  A beaver then gnaws through huge trees, an important food source, and easily floats the trunks across the pond to be stored near its home.

7.  Heavy logging and commercial fishing contributed to loss of salmon, an important food source for the Pacific Northwest whales.

8.  In Asia, rice is the most important food crop.

9.  In July, United Nations officials embraced biotech as an important food technology for the developing world in an anxiously awaited report.

10.  They also served as an important food for the Indians, and are still eaten on some islands.