Mammalia - Nutritional ecology and digestive physiology

For ages, mammals have been classified by their nutritional ecology (carnivore vs. herbivore) or their digestive physiology (ruminant vs. hindgut fermenter). This volume of the wellknown book series Handbook of Zoology explains concepts of mammalian diversification based on nutritional ecology and digestive physiology, presents competing concepts of species diversification, and provides a catalogue of empirical data on the digestive physiology and nutritional ecology of mammalian species.