Body mass predicts isotope enrichment in herbivorous mammals

JV Tejada-Lara, BJ MacFadden… - … of the Royal …, 2018 - royalsocietypublishing.org
herbivorous group spanning a broad range of body masses… bioapatite d13C enrichment
among mammals. Statistical tests (… with body mass for all mammalian herbivores. A single-factor …

The macroevolutionary relationship between diet and body mass across mammals

SA Price, SSB Hopkins - Biological Journal of the Linnean …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
… We predict that herbivorous mammals will be larger than carnivorous species and that
habitat will mediate this relationship as the availability of food changes between habitats, as do …

The relationship between diet and body mass in terrestrial mammals

S Pineda-Munoz, AR Evans, J Alroy - Paleobiology, 2016 - cambridge.org
Herbivore diets cover the entire body-size range beyond the size of the smallest … Most
frugivorous mammal species in our data set have a body mass between 500 g and 30kg. Previous …

The maximum attainable body size of herbivorous mammals: morphophysiological constraints on foregut, and adaptations of hindgut fermenters

M Clauss, R Frey, B Kiefer, M Lechner-Doll, W Loehlein… - Oecologia, 2003 - Springer
… very large herbivores not only have no need for an increased passage delay, but are actually
obliged to accelerate passage rate relative to their body mass, has not been emphasized. …

The allometric scaling of density and body mass: a nonlinear relationship for terrestrial mammals

M Silva, JA Downing - The American Naturalist, 1995 - journals.uchicago.edu
Herbivorous mammals can use 25 times the energy used by carnivores, and populations of
… insectivores use only 10% of the energy used by other carnivores of equivalent body mass. …

Herbivorous reptiles and body mass: effects on food intake, digesta retention, digestibility and gut capacity, and a comparison with mammals

R Franz, J Hummel, DWH Müller, M Bauert… - … and Physiology Part A …, 2011 - Elsevier
… The findings of this study corroborate findings in herbivorous mammals, in which a discrepancy
in the scaling of gut capacity, food intake, and digesta retention was documented (Clauss …

A case of non-scaling in mammalian physiology? Body size, digestive capacity, food intake, and ingesta passage in mammalian herbivores

M Clauss, A Schwarm, S Ortmann, WJ Streich… - … and Physiology Part A …, 2007 - Elsevier
… scale linearly to body mass (BM), and dry matter intake (DMI) to metabolic body weight (BM …
Therefore, we limit the scope of this contribution to herbivorous mammals only and analyse …

Assessing the Jarman–Bell principle: scaling of intake, digestibility, retention time and gut fill with body mass in mammalian herbivores

DWH Müller, D Codron, C Meloro, A Munn… - … and Physiology Part A …, 2013 - Elsevier
… The scaling relationships of digestive features with body mass (BM) in herbivores are a
fundamental part of our interpretation of herbivore feeding ecology, interspecific niche …

Comparative chewing efficiency in mammalian herbivores

J Fritz, J Hummel, E Kienzle, C Arnold, C Nunn… - Oikos, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
… We report effects as slopes of the relationship between body mass and digesta particle size
(b mass ). When investigating the effect of a particular taxonomic group or digestive strategy, …

Precipitation and large herbivorous mammals I: estimates from present-day communities

JT Eronen, K Puolamäki, L Liu… - Evolutionary …, 2010 - evolutionary-ecology.com
… For the body mass variable, we used the mean recorded body mass (kg), and for body length,
… For diet, we used the following categories: herbivore, frugivore, and omnivore. We further …