This Handbook is an outcome of the meeting on Secondary Productivity of Terrestrial
Ecosystems held at Jablonna in 1966, the proceedings of which were published by the …

1. Three methods, based on treatment with neutral detergent or acid detergent, or involving
ultrasonic disintegration, are described and compared for the direct estimation of undigested …

Techniques for evaluating fecal analysis were investigated using examples from studies on
European waterfowl. Visual classification of droppings in the field on the basis of color or the …

The food habits of small rodents are poorly known, mainly because the finely masticated
food components are hard to identify. Present data derive mostly from preference …

Publisher Summary Studies on heathlands in NW Europe have provided a remarkably
detailed picture of interactions between the heath vegetation, the major herbivores, and …

This is a most interesting and informative book. The author's experience in both the practical
and academic environments associated with the subject has resulted in a text which should …

By means of laboratory experiments under controlled conditions, fifty-two native plants were
examined with respect to their palatability to the land snail Cepaea nemoralis. Palatability …

Food eaten by buffalo (Syncerus caffer), Uganda kob (Adenota kob thomasi), topi
(Damaliscus korrigum jimela), warthog (Phacochoerus aethiopicus), waterbuck (Kobus …

(1) Faecal pellets of rabbits were collected from the Holkham sand dunes, Norfolk. The
proportion of leaf epidermis of various plant species in the faecal pellets was compared with …

(1) The food of Agriolimax reticulatus on rough grassland was investigated by the
examination of their crop contents and the comparison of plant fragments from these with …