Browsing FAS Scholarly Articles by Author "Hummel, Jürgen"

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    • Comparative Chewing Efficiency in Mammalian Herbivores 

      Fritz, Julia; Hummel, Jürgen; Kienzle, Ellen; Arnold, Christian; Nunn, Charles Lindsay; Clauss, Marcus (Nordic Ecological Society, 2009)
      Although the relevance of particle size reduction in herbivore digestion is widely appreciated, few studies have investigated digesta particle size across species in relation to body mass or digestive strategy. We investigated ...

    • Evidence for a Tradeoff Between Retention Time and Chewing Efficiency in Large Mammalian Herbivores 

      Clauss, Marcus; Nunn, Charles Lindsay; Fritz, Julia; Hummel, Jürgen (Elsevier, 2009)
      Large body size is thought to produce a digestive advantage through different scaling effects of gut capacity and food intake, with supposedly longer digesta retention times in larger animals. However, empirical tests of ...