The mammalian cranium (skull without lower jaw) is representative of mammalian diversity
and is thus of particular interest to mammalian biologists across disciplines. One widely …

The discipline of ecology seeks to understand how ecosystems, communities, and
populations are regulated. A ubiquitous mechanism of population regulation of consumers is …

Summary 1 Nutrition influences most aspects of animal ecology: juvenile growth rates and
adult mass gain, body condition, probability of pregnancy, over‐winter survival, timing of …

DNA metabarcoding is widely used to determine wild animal diets, but whether this
technique provides accurate, quantitative measurements is still under debate. To test our …

Ruminant species are classified into three main feeding categories: those which feed mainly
on browse material (browsers); those which feed mainly on grass (grazers); and those which …

Due primarily to anthropogenic influences such as land use change, exotic species
introductions, livestock grazing, altered hunting regimes, and predator control, wild ungulate …

Summary 1 To determine if the response of trees to herbivory is related to their ability to
store nitrogen, saplings of Pinus sylvestris L., Betula pendula Roth. and Sorbus aucuparia L …

Wooded rangelands are a vast grazing land resource globally, including shrublands,
savannas and forested ranges. They generally provide forage year-round for small …

1. Rate-maximizing foragers that only divide their time between searching and handling prey
should, according to the classical contingency model (CM), only select those prey whose …

Large browsing and grazing herbivores can have a profound influence on the physiognomy,
composition, and function of vegetation, from the landscape scale to a single plant (Hobbs …