Diet breadth of mammalian herbivores: Nutrient versus detoxification constraints

Oecologia

Volumn 123, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 397-405

  Dearing, M Denise ^a,b   Mangione, Antonio M ^a   Karasov, William H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

Detoxification; Digestion; Juniperus; Neotoma; Nutrients

Indexed keywords

JUNIPERUS; JUNIPERUS MONOSPERMA; MAMMALIA; NEOTOMA; NEOTOMA ALBIGULA; NEOTOMA STEPHENSI; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0034043320     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004420051027     Document Type: Article

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