ArticleRoyal Society open science2024
Body size modulates the extent of seasonal diet switching by large mammalian herbivores in Yellowstone National Park.
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- Seasonal Diet Variation in Reintroduced Milu (Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2026Article
- Bite-DNA Shows Substantial Browsing on Willows (Ecology and evolution · 2026Article
- The Seasonal Dietary Shift and Niche Resilience of Yaks on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2026Article
- Diet Switching and Interspecific Competition in Sympatric Steppe Ungulates Under Seasonal Resource Variability.Ecology and evolution · 2026Article
- The apportionment of dietary diversity in wildlife.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025Article
- Body size modulates the extent of seasonal diet switching by large mammalian herbivores in Yellowstone National Park.Royal Society open science · 2024Article
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Abstract
Prevailing theories about animal foraging behaviours and the food webs they occupy offer divergent predictions about whether seasonally limited food availability promotes dietary diversification or specialization. Emphasis on how animals compete for food predominates in work on the foraging ecology of large mammalian herbivores, whereas emphasis on how the diversity of available foods generally constrains dietary opportunity predominates work on entire food webs. Reconciling predictions about what promotes dietary diversification is challenging because species' different body sizes and mobilities modulate how they seek and compete for resources-the mechanistic bases of common predictions may not pertain to all species equally. We evaluated predictions about five large-herbivore species that differ in body size and mobility in Yellowstone National Park using GPS tracking and dietary DNA. The data illuminated remarkably strong and significant correlations between body size and five key indicators of diet seasonality (
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