A paleoecological paradox: The habitat and dietary preferences of the...

Paleobiology;  October 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ......freshwater ecosystems. Introduction Mammalian herbivores are a minor component of the total...when the diversity of large-bodied, mammalian herbivores was higher (Domning and Furusawa...several species of large-bodied mammalian herbivores in coastal ecosystems has no modern...

The manipulation of plant toxins by a food-hoarding herbivore, Ochotona...

Ecology;  April 1, 1997 ;     700+ words ......factors governing diet selection of mammalian herbivores have puzzled ecologists for decades...predicts diet selection by generalist mammalian herbivores. One axiom emerging from these studies...evidence suggests that a subset of mammalian herbivores, the food-hoarding ones, may be...

Old Fields: Dynamics and Restoration of Abandoned Farmland

Environmental History;  July 1, 2008 ;     616 words ......to this volume have conducted local-scale studies of old field succession, drawing on research from diverse climates and on a range...Fields is a greater insight into the complexity of old field succession, largely because the dominant conclusion of the volume...

Relative importance of factors contributing to postfire seedling...

Ecology;  October 1, 1996 ;     700+ words ......In addition, shrubs serve as cover for some mammalian herbivores; when the shrubs are burned, herbivory may be...Several investigators have shown that certain mammalian herbivores are associated with shrubs in mature chaparral...

Fanciful notion

The Press;  October 24, 2005 ;     146 words ......Native vegetation has evolved characteristics that made it tolerant of moa browse but provides little defence against mammalian herbivores. Moa and other extinct browsing birds had a suite of predators but tahr, etc, have none except us. Recreational hunting...

Plant development affects arthropod communities: opposing impacts of...

Ecology;  October 1, 1997 ;     700+ words ......the tree (O'Rourke 1949) as a defense mechanism against mammalian herbivores. Trees asexually derived from the mature zone do not...1997). Experimental studies have shown that insect and mammalian herbivores directly respond to these developmental changes. For...

A model of wear in curved mammal teeth: controls on occlusal morphology...

Paleobiology;  January 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ...Abstract.- Cheek teeth of some mammalian herbivores exhibit pronounced changes in occlusal...evolution and diversification of other mammalian herbivores during the late Miocene, and the...surface. Upper cheek teeth of some mammalian herbivores, notably several groups of extinct...

Response of Tridens flavus (L.) A. S. Hitchc. to soil nutrients and...

Journal of the Torrey Botanical Society;  July 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ......perennial, warm-season bunchgrass that is important in old field succession, to varying soil nutrient and disturbance regimes. We tested...fertilization is warranted in the understanding of old field succession. While definitions for disturbance vary (Petraitis et al...

Upland old-field succession in southeastern New Hampshire1

Journal of the Torrey Botanical Society;  January 1, 2002 ;     700+ words ......Hampshire, Durham, NH, 03824). Upland old-field succession in southeastern New Hampshire. J...post-agricultural disturbance. Key words: Old-field succession, chronosequence, community dynamics...unique opportunity to look at old-field succession in southern New England over a 200...

Legumes may be symbiont-limited during old-field succession

The American Midland Naturalist;  July 1, 1998 ;     700+ words ...JENNIFER L. LARSON' AND EVAN SIEMANN2 ABSTRACT.-We employed a bioassay using soybean seeds and native prairie bush clover (Lespedeza capitata) seeds to demonstrate that legumes may be rare throughout secondary succession in nitrogen-poor grasslands due to a lack of suitable rhizobia and

Selection of mature growth stages of coniferous browse in temperate...

The American Midland Naturalist;  April 1, 1998 ;     700+ words ...ABSTRACT.-Mammalian herbivores in boreal areas selectively browse on mature-stage growth rather than on juvenile-stage growth of conspecific plants during winter...

Endophyte infection can contribute to aluminum tolerance in fine fescues....

Crop Science;  November 1, 2001 ;     700+ words ......alkaloids which protect the plants from herbivory. The relationship of endophyte infection and protection from insect and mammalian herbivores via synthesis of toxic alkaloids is well established and has been the subject of numerous studies (Breen, 1994; Bush...

Pocket Gophers Serve As 'Ecosystem Engineers'.

AScribe Science News Service;  July 31, 2004 ;     575 words ......NCEAS) at UC Santa Barbara, will present findings on North American pocket gophers, entitled Bioturbation by subterranean mammalian herbivores and its impact on ecosystems, at the annual meeting of the Ecology Society of America in Portland, Ore., the first week...

Forest reorganization: a case study in an old-growth forest catastrophic...

Ecology;  April 1, 1995 ;     700+ words ......present a study of community regeneration after catastrophic windthrow of an old-growth forest containing high densities of mammalian herbivores. On 31 May 1985, tornadoes struck western Pennsylvania, eastern Ohio, southwestern New York, and southern Ontario. Three...

Are female voles food limited? Effects of endophyte-infected tall fescue...

The American Midland Naturalist;  July 1, 2001 ;     700+ words ......coenophialum) while three grids of uninfected fescue served as references. This endophyte is known to lower food quality for mammalian herbivores, affecting growth rates and reproductive success. We predicted that home range sizes would be larger on endophyte-- infected...