...://www.biologists.com/user-licence-1-1/ Summary: House sparrows quickly adjust to new diets with differing protein and carbohydrate content when they are less than a week old. Digestive physiology Development Phenotypic flexibility Invasion biology Feeding ecology Passer domesticus Of all...

... in the gut of these herbivorous birds rather than simple physical effects of diet fibre on feed intakes or on muscular compensation to fibrous ingesta. © 2014. Published by The Company of Biologists Ltd 2014 Quail Coturnix chinensis Phenotypic plasticity Dietary fibre Energy dilution Digestive...

... © 2012. 2012 feeding ecology digestive physiology elasmobranch tiger shark sandbar shark In marine ecosystems, the advent of electronic tags has provided unprecedented new insights into movements of highly mobile sharks and fishes ( Meyer et al., 2007 ; Meyer et al., 2010...

...Paweł Brzęk; Krista M. Lessner; Enrique Caviedes-Vidal; William H. Karasov SUMMARY It can be hypothesized that species with a wide or variable food niche are able to adjust their digestive physiology to current food type. In diet specialists, however, the capacity for such presumably costly...

... strategies and determining the limits of structural and physiological flexibility are necessary. LIST OF ABREVIATIONS * Author for correspondence (e-mail: dnaya@fcien.edu.uy ) 16 4 2009 2009 Andean toad Bufo spinulosus digestive physiology energetics enzymes fasting...

...). The changes in maltase activity seem important for maintaining digestive efficiency and rate at the whole animal level. Because young house sparrows face variable and, presumably, unpredictable changes in diet composition( Anderson, 2006 ), the high developmental plasticity of their digestive physiology...

...Frédéric Hervant; David Renault SUMMARY The effects of long-term fasting and subsequent refeeding on digestive physiology and energy metabolism were investigated in a subterranean aquatic crustacean, Stenasellus virei , and in a morphologically similar surface-dwelling species, Asellus aquaticus...

... Limited 2001 2001 hatching asynchrony sibling competition energetics digestive physiology sand martin Riparia riparia . Variation in fluctuation of food supplies experienced during ontogeny has important consequences for life history ( Gebhardt-Henrich and Richner, 1998 ). The response...