Large herbivores play unique ecological roles and are disproportionately imperiled by
human activity. As many wild populations dwindle towards extinction, and as interest grows …

Eating a varied diet is a central tenet of good nutrition. Here, we develop a molecular tool to
quantify human dietary plant diversity by applying DNA metabarcoding with the chloroplast …

Extreme weather events perturb ecosystems and increasingly threaten biodiversity.
Ecologists emphasize the need to forecast and mitigate the impacts of these events, which …

Individual animals should adjust diets according to food availability. We used DNA
metabarcoding to construct individual-level dietary timeseries for elephants from two family …

Large mammalian herbivores exert strong top‐down control on plants, which in turn
influence most ecological processes. Accordingly, the decline, displacement, or extinction of …

The density and distribution of resources shape animal movement and behavior and have
direct implications for population dynamics. Resource availability often is “pulsed” in space …

Prevailing theories about animal foraging behaviours and the food webs they occupy offer
divergent predictions about whether seasonally limited food availability promotes dietary …

Individual niche variation occurs when individuals within a population adopt unique
behavioural or ecological traits, giving the population a distinct niche structure. Although …

Grazing livestock in grasslands face the challenge of obtaining sufficient nutrition due to
uneven distribution of plant species and fluctuating vegetation productivity and nutrient …

Evaluating the factors that promote coexistence between ecologically similar species is
crucial to understanding the evolution and assembly of herbivore communities. The Jarman …