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Adjusting Our Thinking About Feeding Animals: Fiber as the Metric for Mimicking Natural Diets

Zoo Biology, EarlyView.
A typical effect of the change of an animal group to a diet higher in fiber: juveniles keep growing, animals of ideal body weight maintain their weight, and obese individuals lose weight. ABSTRACT Free‐ranging animals often ingest markedly different diets than their counterparts under human care, whether companion animals, production animals, or zoo ...
Marcus Clauss, Geert P. J. Janssens, Oliver Pritchard Moore, Sarah Byrne, Marcin Przybyło   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Chemical Composition, Intake, and Digestibility of Native and Improved Perennial Grasses and Crop Residues of Burkina Faso. [PDF]

Animals (Basel)
Yoda GML, Pousga S, Zampaligré N, Kéré M, Assouma MH, Dossa LH.   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Feeding Practices and Welfare of Zoo‐Housed Giraffes (Giraffa camelopardalis) on a Global Scale

Zoo Biology, EarlyView.
We collected feeding and stereotypy information on 702 giraffes from 146 zoos from all over the world. Less appropriate diets were linked to more oral stereotypies. ABSTRACT Since giraffe feeding practices have only been reported for European and US facilities, this study aimed to achieve a comprehensive overview of the current giraffe feeding ...
Rosalyn Pardave, Gernot Osthoff, Marcus Clauss, Francois Deacon   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Editorial: Resilience of native grass species under climate dynamics: physio-ecological insights. [PDF]

Front Plant Sci
Dias de Oliveira EA, Xu W, Xu B.
europepmc   +1 more source

Diet, phenology and body size shape nutrient release by songbirds

Functional Ecology, EarlyView.
Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog. Abstract Animals can dramatically alter ecosystem structure and function through the cycling and transport of nutrients in their waste. While birds are particularly capable of influencing nutrient cycles due to their high mobility, abundance, metabolism and functional diversity,
Linsey Chen, Alexander S. Flecker, Ethan S. Duvall   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Integrating large mammalian herbivores into Dynamic Global Vegetation Models: Status and next steps

Functional Ecology, EarlyView.
Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog. Abstract Zoogeochemistry, the study of how animals influence elemental cycling within ecosystems, bridges the fields of zoology, ecology and biogeochemistry. Yet, most terrestrial ecosystem models, especially Dynamic Global Vegetation Models (DGVMs), remain largely plant‐centric
Yue Cheng, Joanne Alice O'Keeffe, Andrew J. Abraham, Jesper Riis Christiansen, Frederik Nygaard Philipsen, Klaus Steenberg Larsen, Fabio Berzaghi, Carsten W. Mueller, Lars Vesterdal, Jeppe A. Kristensen, Elizabeth Le Roux   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

Small mammalian herbivores at moderate densities facilitate livestock growth by improving vegetation composition in grasslands. [PDF]

Elife
Zhong Z, Ni B, Lawton D, Li X, Zheng X, Zhou H, Su J, Li W, Hou F, Guo Z, Dong Q, Dong S, Dickman CR, Svenning JC, Gao Y, Zhang Z.   +15 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Out of the fire and into the frying pan: Hostile post‐fire thermal conditions reduce activity windows for reptiles

Functional Ecology, EarlyView.
Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog. Abstract Climate change and intensified fire regimes are reshaping ecosystems globally. Reptiles, as ectotherms, rely on microhabitat shelters to buffer against thermal extremes, yet the capacity of these shelters to persist or function following fire remains poorly understood ...
Max Tibby, Heather Neilly, Karl Vernes, Eric Nordberg   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

First-Cut Yield and Forage Quality of Grass-Legume Mixtures Differing in Composition and Intended Use Across Two Years. [PDF]

Plants (Basel)
Gvazdauskė G, Kemešytė V, Šidlauskaitė G, Kadžiulienė Ž, Jaškūnė K.   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source