The multidimensional nutritional niche

GE Machovsky-Capuska, AM Senior… - Trends in Ecology & …, 2016 - cell.com
The dietary generalist–specialist distinction plays a pivotal role in theoretical and applied
ecology, conservation, invasion biology, and evolution and yet the concept remains poorly …

The nutritional ecology of marine apex predators

GE Machovsky-Capuska… - Annual Review of …, 2020 - annualreviews.org
Apex predators play pivotal roles in marine ecosystems, mediated principally through diet
and nutrition. Yet, compared with terrestrial animals, the nutritional ecology of marine …

Geometry of nutrition in field studies: an illustration using wild primates

D Raubenheimer, GE Machovsky-Capuska… - Oecologia, 2015 - Springer
Nutritional geometry has shown the benefits of viewing nutrition in a multidimensional
context, in which foraging is viewed as a process of balancing the intake and use of multiple …

Multidimensional nutritional ecology and urban birds

SCP Coogan, D Raubenheimer, SP Zantis… - …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
There is growing interest in the question of how urbanization affects the ecology of birds,
across timescales from relatively short‐term physiological responses to long‐term …

Diet Composition and Nutritional Niche Breadth Variability in Juvenile White Sharks (Carcharodon carcharias)

R Grainger, VM Peddemors… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Establishing diets and dietary generalism in marine top predators is critical for
understanding their ecological roles and responses to environmental fluctuations. Nutrition …

A nutritional perspective on plastic ingestion in wildlife

GE Machovsky-Capuska, C Amiot, P Denuncio… - Science of the Total …, 2019 - Elsevier
Although the perils of plastics to living organisms including humans have been neglected for
decades, they have recently been recognized as a major environmental problem worldwide …

Sexual segregation in tropical seabirds: drivers of sex-specific foraging in the Brown Booby Sula leucogaster

MGR Miller, FRO Silva, GE Machovsky-Capuska… - Journal of …, 2018 - Springer
Sexual segregation in the behaviour, morphology or physiology of breeding seabirds can be
related to divergent parental roles, foraging niche partitioning or sex-specific nutritional …

Functional macronutritional generalism in a large omnivore, the brown bear

SCP Coogan, D Raubenheimer… - Ecology and …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
We combine a recently developed framework for describing dietary generalism with
compositional data analysis to examine patterns of omnivory in a large widely distributed …

Assessing the nutritional consequences of switching foraging behavior in wood bison

LJ Hecker, MA Edwards, SE Nielsen - Ecology and Evolution, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Diet is one of the most common traits used to organize species of animals into niches. For
ruminant herbivores, the breadth and uniqueness of their dietary niche are placed on a …

Prey nutrient content creates omnivores out of predators

TA Ugine, SB Krasnoff, RJ Grebenok… - Ecology …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The proximate forces that create omnivores out of herbivores and predators have long
fascinated ecologists, but the causal reasons for a shift to omnivory are poorly understood …