Ruminant diversification as an adaptation to the physicomechanical characteristics of forage. A reevaluation of an old debate and a new hypothesis

By M. Clauss, M. Lechner-Doll, W. Streich. 2003

137 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Agronomy and Crop Science, Genetics, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law

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In Agronomy and Crop Science

1. J. Hummel
2. Thomas M. Kaiser
3. M. Clauss
4. Norman Owen-Smith
5. Randal Arsenault

In Genetics

1. J. Hummel
2. Thomas M. Kaiser
3. M. Clauss
4. F. Klein
5. Hervé Fritz
6. D. Codron
7. Norman Owen-Smith
8. Randal Arsenault

In Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law

1. Thomas M. Kaiser
2. J. Hummel
3. J. Lee-Thorp
4. M. Clauss
5. M. Sponheimer

Citations in the corpus

• Nutritional content of savanna plant foods: implications for browser/grazer models of ungulate diversification (2007, background): “…several studies have employed methods that express feeding style as a continuous variable across multiple taxa, rather than simply classifying animals into discrete groups of browsers, grazers, and mixed-feeders (Janis 1995; Clauss et al. 2003; Sponheimer et al. 2003; Perez-Barberia et al. 2004).”
• Diets of savanna ungulates from stable carbon isotope composition of faeces (2007, background): “Indeed, several previous studies advocate that ungulate diets should be treated as continuous, rather than using discrete categories of feeding style (Janis, 1995; Cerling et al., 2003; Clauss, Lechner-Doll & Streich, 2003; Perez-Barberia et al., 2004).”
• Seasonal variation in diet composition and similarity of sympatric red deer Cervus elaphus and roe deer Capreolus capreolus (2008, background): “…to fibrous forage has also been attributed to interspecific differences in morphophysiology (Hofmann & Stewart 1972, Hofmann 1989, Clauss & Lechner-Doll 2001, Clauss et al. 2003), on the basis of which Hofmann (1989) set up a classification of ruminants according to their feeding selectivity.”
• The Morphophysiological Adaptations of Browsing and Grazing Mammals (2008, methodology): “The question of whether there are different upper and lower body size thresholds for the feasibility of grazing or browsing in ruminants has been addressed by Demment and Van Soest (1985) and by Clauss et al. (2003a).”