Silicon-based plant defences, tooth wear and voles

Technical note: An in vitro study of dental microwear formation using theBITE Master IIchewing machine

(2015) Li-Cheng Hua et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY

Round and round in cycles? Silicon-based plant defences and vole population dynamics

(2015) Susan E. Hartley   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Three-dimensional dental microwear texture analysis and diet in extant Suidae (Mammalia: Cetartiodactyla)

(2015) Antoine Souron et al.   MAMMALIA

New model to explain tooth wear with implications for microwear formation and diet reconstruction

(2015) Jing Xia et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Isotopic partitioning by small mammals in the subnivium

(2015) Ivan Calandra et al.   Ecology and Evolution

Defending the leaf surface: intra- and inter-specific differences in silicon deposition in grasses in response to damage and silicon supply

(2015) Sue E. Hartley et al.   Frontiers in Plant Science

3D dental microwear texture analysis of feeding habits of sympatric ruminants in the Białowieża Primeval Forest, Poland

(2014) Gildas Merceron et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Plant-herbivore interactions: silicon concentration in tussock sedges and population dynamics of root voles

(2014) Monika Wieczorek et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Effect of the abrasive properties of sedges on the intestinal absorptive surface and resting metabolic rate of root voles

(2014) M. Wieczorek et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Growth and wear of incisor and cheek teeth in domestic rabbits (Oryctolagus cuniculus) fed diets of different abrasiveness

(2014) Jacqueline Müller et al.   Journal of Experimental Zoology Part A-Ecological Genetics and Physiology

Scratching the surface: A critique of Lucas et al. (2013)'s conclusion that phytoliths do not abrade enamel

(2014) Diana Rabenold et al.   JOURNAL OF HUMAN EVOLUTION

Predator-vole interactions in northern Europe: the role of small mustelids revised

(2014) K. Korpela et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Leaf silica concentration in Serengeti grasses increases with watering but not clipping: insights from a common garden study and literature review

(2014) Kathleen M. Quigley et al.   Frontiers in Plant Science

Mechanisms and causes of wear in tooth enamel: implications for hominin diets

(2013) P. W. Lucas et al.   Journal of the Royal Society Interface

Dietary Abrasiveness Is Associated with Variability of Microwear and Dental Surface Texture in Rabbits

(2013) Ellen Schulz et al.   PLoS One

Arctic Small Rodents Have Diverse Diets and Flexible Food Selection

(2013) Eeva M. Soininen et al.   PLoS One

Feeding ecology and chewing mechanics in hoofed mammals: 3D tribology of enamel wear

(2013) Ellen Schulz et al.   WEAR

Prairie grass phytolith hardness and the evolution of ungulate hypsodonty

(2013) Kayley L. Erickson   HISTORICAL BIOLOGY

Cyclic voles and shrews and non-cyclic mice in a marginal grassland within European temperate forest

(2012) K. Zub et al.   ACTA THERIOLOGICA

Dental microwear texture and anthropoid diets

(2012) Robert S. Scott et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY

Teasing apart the contributions of hard dietary items on 3D dental microtextures in primates

(2012) Ivan Calandra et al.   JOURNAL OF HUMAN EVOLUTION

Dental microwear texture analysis of extant African Bovidae

(2012) Jessica R. Scott   MAMMALIA

Delayed induced silica defences in grasses and their potential for destabilising herbivore population dynamics

(2012) Jennifer J. H. Reynolds et al.   OECOLOGIA

Expansion of open landscapes in Northern China during the Oligocene induced by dramatic climate changes: Paleoecological evidence

(2012) Helder Gomes Rodrigues et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

Plant traits that predict resistance to herbivores

(2010) Diego Carmona et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Diet of the extinct Lava mouse Malpaisomys insularis from the Canary Islands: insights from dental microwear

(2010) Cyril Firmat et al.   NATURWISSENSCHAFTEN

Can Dental Microwear Textures Record Inter-Individual Dietary Variations?

(2010) Gildas Merceron et al.   PLoS One

Morphometrics as an Insight Into Processes Beyond Tooth Shape Variation in a Bank Vole Population

(2010) Ronan Ledevin et al.   PLoS One

Impacts of silica-based defences in grasses on the feeding preferences of sheep

(2009) Fergus P. Massey et al.   BASIC AND APPLIED ECOLOGY

Analysing diet of small herbivores: the efficiency of DNA barcoding coupled with high-throughput pyrosequencing for deciphering the composition of complex plant mixtures

(2009) Eeva M Soininen et al.   Frontiers in Zoology

A Novel Mechanism by which Silica Defends Grasses Against Herbivory

(2008) J. W. Hunt et al.   ANNALS OF BOTANY

Are silica defences in grasses driving vole population cycles?

(2008) F.P Massey et al.   Biology Letters

Diagnosis and Treatment of Dental Disease in Pet Rodents

(2008) Vittorio Capello   Journal of Exotic Pet Medicine

Linking climate change to lemming cycles

(2008) Kyrre L. Kausrud et al.   NATURE