Grazing animals walk outdoors and harvest fresh herbage from a three‐dimensional
canopy. Botanical composition and grassland management in various farming systems …

The nutrient intakes of mammalian herbivores depend on the amount and the nutrient
content of the plant species and plant parts which they eat. We review the merits of …

Grazing distribution patterns of large herbivores are affected by abiotic factors such as slope
and distance to water and by biotic factors such as forage quantity and quality. Abiotic …

We present a handy mechanistic functional response model that realistically incorporates
handling (ie, attacking and eating) and digesting prey. We briefly review current functional …

Grazing is a fundamental process affecting grassland ecosystem dynamics and functioning.
Its behavioral components comprise how animals search for feed, and gather and process …

Within a day, grazing decisions such as 'when'to begin,'which'frequency and 'how'to
distribute grazing events determine ruminants' diurnal grazing pattern. Ruminants can have …

Summary 1 Many classical models of ungulate foraging are premised on energy
maximization, yet limited empirical evidence and untested currency assumptions make the …

Vigilance has been assumed to reduce food intake by taking away time from food
processing. Such foraging costs of vigilance have been predicted to have profound effects …

The relationship between herbage intake by herbivores and herbage available depends on
the interaction between sward structure and animal behaviour. This relationship is a crucial …

An axiomatic feature of food consumption by animals is that intake rate and prey abundance
are positively related. While this has been demonstrated rigorously for large herbivores, it is …