Obligate herbivory in an ancestrally carnivorous lineage: The giant panda and bamboo from the perspective of nutritional geometry

Functional Ecology

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 26-34

  Nie, Yonggang ^a   Zhang, Zejun ^a   Raubenheimer, David ^b   Elser, James J ^c   Wei, Wei ^a   Wei, Fuwen ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^c ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Feeding strategy; Giant panda; Life cycle; Nutritional geometry; Reproductive timing; Right angled mixture triangles; Seasonal migration

Indexed keywords

BAMBOO; CARNIVORE; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; DISJUNCT DISTRIBUTION; ENDANGERED SPECIES; FORAGING EFFICIENCY; HABITAT CONSERVATION; LIFE CYCLE ANALYSIS; MAMMAL; MIGRATORY BEHAVIOR; NUTRIENT AVAILABILITY; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; OBLIGATE BEHAVIOR; REPRODUCTIVE BEHAVIOR;

AILUROPODA MELANOLEUCA;

EID: 84921396087     PISSN: 02698463     EISSN: 13652435     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1365-2435.12302     Document Type: Article

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