The role of herbivores in controlling plant species richness is a critical issue in the
conservation and management of grassland biodiversity. Numerous field experiments in …

This review reevaluates the importance of interspecific competition in the population biology
of phytophagous insects and assesses factors that mediate competition. An examination of …

Niche partitioning facilitates species coexistence in a world of limited resources, thereby
enriching biodiversity. For decades, biologists have sought to understand how diverse …

Trophic cascades are regarded as important signals for top‐down control of food web
dynamics. Although there is clear evidence supporting the existence of trophic cascades, the …

To understand modern principles of sustainable management and the conservation of
wildlife species requires intimate knowledge about demography, animal behavior, and …

We present a handy mechanistic functional response model that realistically incorporates
handling (ie, attacking and eating) and digesting prey. We briefly review current functional …

Current methods for evaluating habitat selection from animal space‐use observations ignore
possible interactions between time allocation patterns relative to different resources, their …

Herbivores can often control plant dynamics by mediating positive feedbacks in plant
species' influence on nutrient cycling. In a 7‐yr field experiment in a nitrogen‐limited …

Large mammalian herbivores occupy half of the earth's land surface and are important both
ecologically and economically, but their diversity is threatened by human activities. We …

Optimal foraging theory predicts that animals will either attempt to maximize energy gained
or minimize time spent to obtain a fixed amount of energy. A time-minimizing approach …