An experimental study of carbon-isotope fractionation between diet, hair, and feces of mammalian herbivores

M Sponheimer, T Robinson, L Ayliffe… - Canadian Journal of …, 2003 - cdnsciencepub.com
… -feeding studies have been undertaken to investigate these fractionations in any mammalian
taxa, fewer still in large mammalian herbivores. Here, we present data from the first study of …

Effects of large native herbivores on other animals

CN Foster, PS Barton… - Journal of Applied …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
study, we focus on the effects of large native herbivores on other animals. The effects of large
herbivores … allow different slopes to be fitted to experimental and non-experimental studies. …

Effects of mammalian herbivore declines on plant communities: observations and experiments in an A frican savanna

HS Young, DJ McCauley, KM Helgen… - Journal of …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
… in modulating the effects of mammalian herbivory on plant communities and the … herbivore
declines. They also suggest caution when extrapolating results from exclosure experiments to …

Avian herbivory: an experiment, a field test, and an allometric comparison with mammals

JA Van Gils, A Gyimesi, B Van Lith - Ecology, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
mammals; very little has been done in herbivorous birds so far. Here we aim to fill that gap
by experimentally quantifying the (short-term) functional response of a large avian herbivore, …

Top-down and bottom-up forces in mammalian herbivore–vegetation systems: an essay review

R Turkington - Botany, 2009 - cdnsciencepub.com
… Here I survey the literature, with a focus on field experiments designed to investigate the soil
resource – vegetation – mammalian herbivore system, … Manipulative experimental studies

The scaling of intake rate in mammalian herbivores

LA Shipley, JE Gross, DE Spalinger… - The American …, 1994 - journals.uchicago.edu
… , the moose Alces alces and its food resources: an experimental study of winter foraging
behaviour in relation to browse availability. Journal of Animal Ecology 56:509-520. Vivas, HJ, B.-…

Experimental defaunation of terrestrial mammalian herbivores alters tropical rainforest understorey diversity

AA Camargo-Sanabria, E Mendoza… - … of the Royal …, 2015 - royalsocietypublishing.org
experimental study in a tropical rainforest site in southeast Mexico, aimed at mimicking
herbivore mammal … between the role of large-bodied mammals and small mammals (ie rodents). …

Experimental test of the role of mammalian herbivores on old field succession: community structure and seedling survival

ML Cadenasso, STA Pickett, PJ Morin - Journal of the Torrey Botanical …, 2002 - JSTOR
… , herbivory can be an important factor in succession. We experimentally tested the role of
mammalian herbivores … , one at the beginning of the experiment and the other 17 years earlier. …

An experimental field study of the effects of mammalian herbivore damage on Eucalyptus nitens seedlings

J Bulinski, C McArthur - Forest Ecology and Management, 1999 - Elsevier
Tasmanian herbivores are known to damage commercially … We report a study which quantified
the effects of browsing … The findings of this study can be used by forestry managers to …

Overcompensation in response to mammalian herbivory: the advantage of being eaten

KN Paige, TG Whitham - The American Naturalist, 1987 - journals.uchicago.edu
… Our experiments support he contention that mammalian herbivores can benefit plants and
… Under the natural field conditions of this study, mammalian herbivores played a beneficial …