Sentences with phrase «mammalian herbivores»

Various measures of methane yield in M. fuliginosus and M. rufus compared with other mammalian herbivores.

Methane production is given (A) per unit of dry matter intake (DMI), (B) as a proportion of gross energy intake (GEI) and (C) per unit of digestible fibre intake (dNDFi)(at 75 % MER and when fed ad libitum) in comparison to ruminants (dark regression line; Franz et al., 2010) and non-ruminant mammalian herbivores (light regression line; Franz et al., 2011b).

Aside from adding to the documented list of insects that eat bone, research by Holden et al. also sheds light on the conditions under which such insects will feed, and why mammalian herbivores offer a great setting for larval development.

The newly published results suggest that mammalian herbivores could generally help protect diversity in warmer climates by preventing losses of small and slowly - growing species.

The team believes that the thicker skin surrounding mammalian herbivore feet dried out and provided a stable, protected, and humid sub-environment complete with the right balance of tendons, muscle and fat for dermestid and tenebrionid larvae.

Not exact matches

Yet this prolific seed production has always made grasses attractive to herbivores, and caused seeds to evolve high levels of toxins designed to poison mammalian digestive tracts, thus enabling their seeds to pass through herbivore guts undigested.