Assessing the nutritional consequences of switching foraging behaviour in wood bison ...
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 is placed on a spectrum from browsers that consume woody (i.e., browse) and herbaceous (i.e., forbs) plants, to grazers with graminoid-ric...
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ftdatacite:10.5061/dryad.rr4xgxd97 2024-06-09T07:45:08+00:00 Assessing the nutritional consequences of switching foraging behaviour in wood bison ... Hecker, Lee Edwards, Mark Neilsen, Scott 2021 https://dx.doi.org/10.5061/dryad.rr4xgxd97 https://datadryad.org/stash/dataset/doi:10.5061/dryad.rr4xgxd97 en eng Dryad Creative Commons Zero v1.0 Universal https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode cc0-1.0 Dataset dataset 2021 ftdatacite https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.rr4xgxd97 2024-05-13T11:13:04Z 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 is placed on a spectrum from browsers that consume woody (i.e., browse) and herbaceous (i.e., forbs) plants, to grazers with graminoid-rich diets. However, seasonal changes in plant availability and quality can lead to switching of their dietary niche, even within species. In this study, we examined whether a population of wood bison (Bison bison athabascae) in northeast Alberta, Canada seasonally switched their foraging behaviour, and if so, whether this was associated with changes in nutrient acquisition. We hypothesized that bison should switch foraging behaviours from grazing in the winter when standing, dead graminoids are the only foliar plants readily available to browsing during spring and summer as nutritious and digestible foliar parts of browse and forbs become available. If bison are switching foraging strategy to maximize protein ... : Please refer to the text in our publication or contact authors for R code. ... Dataset Bison bison athabascae Wood Bison Bison bison bison DataCite Metadata Store (German National Library of Science and Technology) Canada |
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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 is placed on a spectrum from browsers that consume woody (i.e., browse) and herbaceous (i.e., forbs) plants, to grazers with graminoid-rich diets. However, seasonal changes in plant availability and quality can lead to switching of their dietary niche, even within species. In this study, we examined whether a population of wood bison (Bison bison athabascae) in northeast Alberta, Canada seasonally switched their foraging behaviour, and if so, whether this was associated with changes in nutrient acquisition. We hypothesized that bison should switch foraging behaviours from grazing in the winter when standing, dead graminoids are the only foliar plants readily available to browsing during spring and summer as nutritious and digestible foliar parts of browse and forbs become available. If bison are switching foraging strategy to maximize protein ... : Please refer to the text in our publication or contact authors for R code. ... |
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