Pasture-based production systems represent a significant sustainable supplier of animal
source foods worldwide. For such systems, mounting evidence highlights the importance of …

The detoxification limitation hypothesis is firmly entrenched in the literature to explain
various aspects of the interaction between herbivores and plant toxins. These include …

The foraging ecology of mammalian herbivores is strongly shaped by plant secondary
compounds (PSC s) that defend plants against herbivory. Conventional wisdom holds that …

The biodiversity of coral reefs is dominated by invertebrates. Many of these invertebrates live
in close association with scleractinian corals, relying on corals for food, habitat or settlement …

Over millions of years, terrestrial plants have competed for limited resources, defended
themselves against herbivores, and resisted a myriad of environmental stresses. These …

During the last decades, describing, analysing and understanding the phylogenetic structure
of species assemblages has been a central theme in both community ecology and macro …

The North American grassland biome first appeared around 18 Ma in the mid Miocene. The
familiar story of the Neogene evolution of this biome is of the replacement of ungulates …

The gastrointestinal tracts of animals contain diverse communities of microbes that provide a
number of services to their hosts. There is recent concern that these communities may be …

Some of the most fascinating and challenging questions in ecology are why biodiversity is
highest in tropical forests and whether the factors involved are unique to these habitats. I did …

Understanding dietary specialization in herbivores has theoretical and practical implications
in ecology, yet defining niche breadth consistently has been problematic. To increase clarity …