Herbivory and Body Size: Allometries of Diet Quality and Gastrointestinal Physiology, and Implications for Herbivore Ecology and Dinosaur Gigantism

Comparative changes in density and demography of large herbivores in the Masai Mara Reserve and its surrounding human-dominated pastoral ranches in Kenya

(2012) Nina Bhola et al.   BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION

Retention of solutes and different-sized particles in the digestive tract of the ostrich (Struthio camelus massaicus), and a comparison with mammals and reptiles

(2012) Julia Fritz et al.   COMPARATIVE BIOCHEMISTRY AND PHYSIOLOGY A-MOLECULAR & INTEGRATIVE PHYSIOLOGY

Fibre digestibility in large herbivores as related to digestion type and body mass — An in vitro approach

(2012) Patrick Steuer et al.   COMPARATIVE BIOCHEMISTRY AND PHYSIOLOGY A-MOLECULAR & INTEGRATIVE PHYSIOLOGY

Assessing the Jarman–Bell Principle: Scaling of intake, digestibility, retention time and gut fill with body mass in mammalian herbivores

(2012) Dennis W.H. Müller et al.   COMPARATIVE BIOCHEMISTRY AND PHYSIOLOGY A-MOLECULAR & INTEGRATIVE PHYSIOLOGY

Could methane produced by sauropod dinosaurs have helped drive Mesozoic climate warmth?

(2012) David M. Wilkinson et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

High C/N ratio (not low-energy content) of vegetation may have driven gigantism in sauropod dinosaurs and perhaps omnivory and/or endothermy in their juveniles

(2012) David M. Wilkinson et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Selective feeding by a megaherbivore, the African elephant (Loxodonta africana)

(2012) Norman Owen-Smith et al.   JOURNAL OF MAMMALOGY

Metabolic Expenditures of Lunge Feeding Rorquals Across Scale: Implications for the Evolution of Filter Feeding and the Limits to Maximum Body Size

(2012) Jean Potvin et al.   PLoS One

No evidence for directional evolution of body mass in herbivorous theropod dinosaurs

(2012) L. E. Zanno et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Complex Dental Structure and Wear Biomechanics in Hadrosaurid Dinosaurs

(2012) G. M. Erickson et al.   SCIENCE

Phylogenetic constraints on digesta separation: Variation in fluid throughput in the digestive tract in mammalian herbivores

(2011) Dennis W.H. Müller et al.   COMPARATIVE BIOCHEMISTRY AND PHYSIOLOGY A-MOLECULAR & INTEGRATIVE PHYSIOLOGY

Is there an influence of body mass on digesta mean retention time in herbivores? A comparative study on ungulates

(2011) Patrick Steuer et al.   COMPARATIVE BIOCHEMISTRY AND PHYSIOLOGY A-MOLECULAR & INTEGRATIVE PHYSIOLOGY

Body size and the division of niche space: food and predation differentially shape the distribution of Serengeti grazers

(2011) J. Grant C. Hopcraft et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

Dichotomy of eutherian reproduction and metabolism

(2011) Dennis W. H. Müller et al.   OIKOS

Gizzard vs. teeth, it's a tie: food-processing efficiency in herbivorous birds and mammals and implications for dinosaur feeding strategies

(2011) Julia Fritz et al.   PALEOBIOLOGY

Methane Output of Tortoises: Its Contribution to Energy Loss Related to Herbivore Body Mass

(2011) Ragna Franz et al.   PLoS One

Biology of the sauropod dinosaurs: the evolution of gigantism

(2010) P. Martin Sander et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Herbivorous reptiles and body mass: Effects on food intake, digesta retention, digestibility and gut capacity, and a comparison with mammals

(2010) Ragna Franz et al.   COMPARATIVE BIOCHEMISTRY AND PHYSIOLOGY A-MOLECULAR & INTEGRATIVE PHYSIOLOGY

Methane output of rabbits (Oryctolagus cuniculus) and guinea pigs (Cavia porcellus) fed a hay-only diet: Implications for the scaling of methane production with body mass in non-ruminant mammalian herbivores

(2010) Ragna Franz et al.   COMPARATIVE BIOCHEMISTRY AND PHYSIOLOGY A-MOLECULAR & INTEGRATIVE PHYSIOLOGY

Allometric scaling predicts preferences for burned patches in a guild of East African grazers

(2010) Ryan L. Sensenig et al.   ECOLOGY

Phylogeny and metabolic scaling in mammals

(2010) Isabella Capellini et al.   ECOLOGY

Intake, selection, digesta retention, digestion and gut fill of two coprophageous species, rabbits (Oryctolagus cuniculus) and guinea pigs (Cavia porcellus), on a hay-only diet

(2010) R. Franz et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL PHYSIOLOGY AND ANIMAL NUTRITION

Invited review: Ruminant ecology and evolution: Perspectives useful to ruminant livestock research and production

(2010) T.J. Hackmann et al.   JOURNAL OF DAIRY SCIENCE

To chew or not to chew: fecal particle size in herbivorous reptiles and mammals

(2010) Julia Fritz et al.   Journal of Experimental Zoology Part A-Ecological Genetics and Physiology

Rumen fermentation and food selection in East African Zebu cattle, wildebeest, Coke's hartebeest and topi

(2010) P. P. Hoppe et al.   JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGY

Resource partitioning by grass height among grazing ungulates does not follow body size relation

(2010) Randal Arsenault et al.   OIKOS

Resource partitioning along multiple niche dimensions in differently sized African savanna grazers

(2010) Elizabeth J. Kleynhans et al.   OIKOS

Giants on the landscape: modelling the abundance of megaherbivorous dinosaurs of the Morrison Formation (Late Jurassic, western USA)

(2010) James O. Farlow et al.   HISTORICAL BIOLOGY

Evidence for a tradeoff between retention time and chewing efficiency in large mammalian herbivores

(2009) Marcus Clauss et al.   COMPARATIVE BIOCHEMISTRY AND PHYSIOLOGY A-MOLECULAR & INTEGRATIVE PHYSIOLOGY

Habitat heterogeneity as a driver of ungulate diversity and distribution patterns: interaction of body mass and digestive strategy

(2009) Joris P. G. M. Cromsigt et al.   DIVERSITY AND DISTRIBUTIONS

Diversity patterns amongst herbivorous dinosaurs and plants during the Cretaceous: implications for hypotheses of dinosaur/angiosperm co-evolution

(2009) R. J. BUTLER et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Comparative chewing efficiency in mammalian herbivores

(2009) Julia Fritz et al.   OIKOS

Allometry of visceral organs in living amniotes and its implications for sauropod dinosaurs

(2009) R. Franz et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Fecal crude protein content as an estimate for the digestibility of forage in grazing sheep

(2008) C.J. Wang et al.   ANIMAL FEED SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

An analysis of the factors that influence the level and scaling of mammalian BMR

(2008) Brian Keith McNab   COMPARATIVE BIOCHEMISTRY AND PHYSIOLOGY A-MOLECULAR & INTEGRATIVE PHYSIOLOGY

More efficient mastication allows increasing intake without compromising digestibility or necessitating a larger gut: Comparative feeding trials in banteng (Bos javanicus) and pygmy hippopotamus (Hexaprotodon liberiensis)

(2008) Angela Schwarm et al.   COMPARATIVE BIOCHEMISTRY AND PHYSIOLOGY A-MOLECULAR & INTEGRATIVE PHYSIOLOGY

Stoichiometry of endothermy: shifting the quest from nitrogen to carbon

(2008) Marcel Klaassen et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

No easy solution for the fractionation of faecal nitrogen in captive wild herbivores: results of a pilot study

(2008) A. Schwarm et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL PHYSIOLOGY AND ANIMAL NUTRITION

In vitro digestibility of fern and gymnosperm foliage: implications for sauropod feeding ecology and diet selection

(2008) J. Hummel et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

PALEONTOLOGY: Sauropod Gigantism

(2008) P. M. Sander et al.   SCIENCE