Adaptive interplay between feeding ecology and features of the digestive tract in birds

By P. Battley, T. Piersma. 2005

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Citations in the corpus

• Diet predicts intestine length in Lake Tanganyika’s cichlid fishes (2009, background): “An inverse relationship between intestine length and trophic level has been well documented in birds (e.g. Ricklefs 1996; Battley & Piersma 2005), reptiles and amphibians (e.g. Ste- vens & Hume 1995; O’Grady et al. 2005), mammals (e.g. Schieck & Millar 1985; Korn 1992) and fishes (e.g.…”
• Digestive bottleneck affects foraging decisions in red knots Calidris canutus. II. Patch choice and length of working day (2005, background): “Gizzards are smallest after a period on the tundra breeding grounds where red knots feed on relatively soft-bodied arthropod adults and larvae (Battley & Piersma 2004) and after the southward flight to coastal staging and/or wintering grounds.”
• Gut length and mass in herbivorous and carnivorous prickleback fishes (Teleostei: Stichaeidae): ontogenetic, dietary, and phylogenetic effects (2006, unknown): “Generally, an increase in intake is cited as the main cause of an increase in gut length in birds ( Battley and Piersma 2005 ).”
• The mechanisms of interference competition: two experiments on foraging waders (2005, unknown): “This may have been due to intrinsic differences between the two species (e.g., search mode or performance of digestive organs; see Battley and Piersma, 2005 ) or to differences in the environment because prey species and substrate type differed as well.”
• Using the power of comparison to explain habitat use and migration strategies of shorebirds worldwide (2007, background): “inflicted by shell fragments on the sensitive intestinal wall, both gizzard and intestine are relatively heavy in hardshelled-prey-eating shorebirds (Battley and Piersma 2005).”