Facts From Feces: Nitrogen Still Measures Up as a Nutritional Index for Mammalian Herbivores

By D. Leslie, R. Terry Bowyer, J. Jenks. 2008

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Rusa unicolor (Artiodactyla: Cervidae) (2011, background): “Using fecal nitrogen and other fecal constituents (e.g., Leslie et al. 2008; Leslie and Starkey 1985), Green (1987) demonstrated that R. unicolor in the Indian Himalayas obtained the highest dietary quality, relative to crude protein, in spring and summer and that high ash content in spring,…”
Soil ingestion, nutrition and the seasonality of anthrax in herbivores of Etosha National Park (2013, background): “Fecal nitrogen is a useful index for the dietary quality of forage (Leslie et al. 2008), although tannins (present in the leaves of some dicotyledonous plants) can increase the concentration of fecal nitrogen observed (Leslie and Starkey 1985, Wrench et al. 1997), so is a better nutritional proxy…”