Comparative chewing efficiency in mammalian herbivores

Oikos

Volumn 118, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 1623-1632

  Fritz, Julia ^a   Hummel, Jürgen ^b   Kienzle, Ellen ^a   Arnold, Christian ^c   Nunn, Charles ^c   Clauss, Marcus ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; BODY MASS; DENTITION; DIGESTION; ECOMORPHOLOGY; ECOPHYSIOLOGY; FECES; FEEDING MECHANISM; HERBIVORE; LEAST SQUARES METHOD; MAMMAL; PARTICLE SIZE; PHYLOGENETICS;

BOVIDAE; EQUIDAE; MAMMALIA;

EID: 71949107543     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: 16000706     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0706.2009.17807.x     Document Type: Article

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