https://www.webpages.uidaho.edu/ruminant_nutrition/Reading%20materials%20411/dietary%20factors%20affecting%20feed%20intake-Allen2000.pdf

Effects of Diet on Short-Term Regulation of Feed Intake by Lactating Dairy Cattle

Creating a System for Meeting the Fiber Requirements of Dairy Cows

Relationship Between Fermentation Acid Production in the Rumen and the Requirement for Physically Effective Fiber

A Simple Method for the Analysis of Particle Sizes of Forage and Total Mixed Rations

The outcome of many high-order processes in ecology depends on the way in which the abundance and distribution of plants affect the eating rate of mammalian herbivores. However, simple, mechanistic models describing the operation of the functional response of these animals have failed to emerge. We offer new models describing the effects of spatial and morphological characteristics of plants on the intake rate of plant tissue by mammalian herbivores feeding within plant patches. We structure our models to respond to three patterns of plant availability: (1) spatially dispersed, apparent plants; (2) spatially dispersed, nonapparent plants; and (3) spatially concentrated plants. We depart from the traditional representations of predator functional response in assuming that searching for food and processing it can overlap in time. Our models illustrate that several distinct mechanisms can account for Type II functional responses frequently seen in herbivores. We show how differences among these mechanisms ca...

https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdfplus/2462612.pdf

F.J. Santini

Papers

Proposed Use of Adjusted Intake Based on Forage Particle Length for Calculation of Roughage Indexes