ABSTRACT A mechanistic understanding of seed movement and survival is important both
for the development of theoretical models of plant population dynamics, spatial spread, and …

Summary 1 Marine herbivorous fishes are considered to be of critical importance in
determining the biological structure of shallow reef environments, and by implication have …

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 …

Population cycles have long fascinated ecologists from the time of Charles Elton in the
1920s. The discovery of large population fluctuations in undisturbed ecosystems challenged …

1. Primates meet their nutritional goals by prioritizing certain nutritional parameters when
choosing the types and quantities of different foods. 2. There are five major models applied …

For foraging herbivores, both food quality and predation risk vary across the landscape.
Animals should avoid low-quality food patches in favour of high-quality ones, and seek safe …

We present a graphical approach, which we believe can help to integrate nutrition into the
broader biological sciences, and introduce generality into the applied nutritional sciences …

It has been hypothesized that herbivores host tannin‐degrading bacteria (TDB) to overcome
the toxic challenges posed by plant tannins. While TDB have been isolated from the guts of …

Gastrointestinal helminths challenge ruminants in ways that reduce their fitness. In turn,
ruminants have evolved physiological and behavioral adaptations that counteract this …

Oxalate-degrading bacteria comprise a functional group of microorganisms, commonly
found in the gastrointestinal tract of mammals. Oxalate is a plant secondary compound …