A decade since 'diversification of ruminants': Has our knowledge improved?

Oecologia

Volumn 125, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 82-84

  Ditchkoff, S S ^a  

^a OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Concentrate selectors; Intermediate feeders; Roughage eaters; Rumen bypass; Ruminant diversification

Indexed keywords

DIGESTION; ECOMORPHOLOGY; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; RUMINANT;

BOVIDAE;

EID: 0033788050     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/PL00008894     Document Type: Article

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