Establishing macroecological trait datasets: Digitalization, extrapolation, and validation of diet preferences in terrestrial mammals worldwide

Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 4, Issue 14, 2014, Pages 2913-2930

  Kissling, Wilm Daniel ^a   Dalby, Lars ^b   Fløjgaard, Camilla ^b   Lenoir, Jonathan ^c   Sandel, Brody ^b   Sandom, Christopher ^d   Trøjelsgaard, Kristian ^b   Svenning, Jens Christian ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^c UFR des Sciences   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Diet ecology; Ecological trait data; Feeding guild; Mammalia; Phylogenetic conservatism; Trophic structure

Indexed keywords

EID: 84904577706     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20457758     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ece3.1136     Document Type: Article

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