List of works - Daryl Codron

'Remote' behavioural ecology: do megaherbivores consume vegetation in proportion to its presence in the landscape?

scientific article published on 19 February 2020

A Brief Update on Developments in Early Hominin Biogeochemistry

A long life among ruminants: giraffids and other special cases

scientific article

Another one bites the dust: faecal silica levels in large herbivores correlate with high-crowned teeth

scientific article (publication date: 7 June 2011)

Assessing the Jarman-Bell Principle: Scaling of intake, digestibility, retention time and gut fill with body mass in mammalian herbivores

scientific article published on 6 October 2012

Bergmann′s rule in mammals: a cross-species interspecific pattern

article

Body condition and ruminal morphology responses of free-ranging impala (Aepyceros melampus) to changes in diet

article

Bone mineral density in the leopard tortoise: Implications for inter-taxon variation and bone survivorship in an archaeozoological assemblage

scientific article

Breeding Young as a Survival Strategy during Earth's Greatest Mass Extinction

scientific article

Carnivore stable carbon isotope niches reflect predator-prey size relationships in African savannas

scientific article

Chewing, dental morphology and wear in tapirs (Tapirus spp.) and a comparison of free-ranging and captive specimens

scientific article published on 15 June 2020

Comparative omasum anatomy in ruminants: Relationships with natural diet, digestive physiology, and general considerations on allometric investigations

scientific article published on 07 January 2019

Competition drives the evolution of emergent neutrality in the dietary niches of mammalian herbivores

scientific article published in 2021

Confirmation of a Wear-Compensation Mechanism in Dental Roots of Ruminants

scientific article published on 20 April 2020

Dental microwear texture analysis correlations in guinea pigs (Cavia porcellus) and sheep (Ovis aries) suggest that dental microwear texture signal consistency is species-specific

scientific article published in 2022

Detecting inter-cusp and inter-tooth wear patterns in rhinocerotids

scientific article (publication date: 2013)

Dichotomy of eutherian reproduction and metabolism

scientific article published in 2011

Diet and diet-related disorders in captive ruminants at the national zoological gardens of South Africa

scientific article published on 24 July 2014

Diet, habitat and flight characteristics correlate with intestine length in birds

scientific article published in 2022

Dietary Evolution: The Panda Paradox

scientific article published on 01 June 2019

Digesta passage in nondomestic ruminants: Separation mechanisms in 'moose-type' and 'cattle-type' species, and seemingly atypical browsers

scientific article published on 18 June 2019

Dry matter and digesta particle size gradients along the goat digestive tract on grass and browse diets

scientific article

ELEPHANT (LOXODONTA AFRICANA) DIETS IN KRUGER NATIONAL PARK, SOUTH AFRICA: SPATIAL AND LANDSCAPE DIFFERENCES

article

Ecological interactions in dinosaur communities: influences of small offspring and complex ontogenetic life histories

scientific article (publication date: 2013)

Ecological modelling, size distributions and taphonomic size bias in dinosaur faunas: reply to Brown et al

scientific article (publication date: 23 February 2013)

Erratum: Strontium isotope evidence for landscape use by early hominins

scientific article published in Nature

Fecal Glucocorticoid Measurements and Their Relation to Rearing, Behavior, and Environmental Factors in the Population of Pileated Gibbons (Hylobates pileatus) Held in European Zoos

article

Fluid and particle passage in three duiker species

article

Forestomach pH in hunted roe deer (Capreolus capreolus) in relation to forestomach region, time of measurement and supplemental feeding and comparison among wild ruminant species

article

Geometric factors influencing the diet of vertebrate predators in marine and terrestrial environments

scientific article

Grass leaves as potential hominin dietary resources

scientific article published on 27 February 2018

Gross intestinal morphometry and allometry in ruminants

scientific article published on 26 June 2019

Growth and wear of incisor and cheek teeth in domestic rabbits (Oryctolagus cuniculus) fed diets of different abrasiveness

scientific article

Growth rate and stable carbon and nitrogen isotope trophic discrimination factors of lion and leopard whiskers.

scientific article

Herbivory and body size: allometries of diet quality and gastrointestinal physiology, and implications for herbivore ecology and dinosaur gigantism

scientific article (publication date: 2013)

Hominins, sedges, and termites: new carbon isotope data from the Sterkfontein valley and Kruger National Park.

scientific article

Hypsodonty and tooth facet development in relation to diet and habitat in herbivorous ungulates: implications for understanding tooth wear

article

Inter- and intrahabitat dietary variability of chacma baboons (Papio ursinus) in South African savannas based on fecal delta13C, delta15N, and %N.

scientific article

Intrinsic factors, adrenal gland morphology, and disease burden in captive cheetahs (Acinonyx jubatus) in South Africa

scientific article

Isotopic niche structure of a mammalian herbivore assemblage from a West African savanna: Body mass and seasonality effect

Landscape-scale feeding patterns of African elephant inferred from carbon isotope analysis of feces

scientific article

Little differences in digestive efficiency for protein and fat in mammals of different trophic guilds and digestive strategies: data constraints or fundamental functional similarity?

scientific article

Low scaling of a life history variable: Analysing eutherian gestation periods with and without phylogeny-informed statistics

article

Nutritional content of savanna plant foods: implications for browser/grazer models of ungulate diversification

article

Ontogenetic niche shifts in dinosaurs influenced size, diversity and extinction in terrestrial vertebrates

scientific article (publication date: 23 August 2012)

Phylogenetic constraints on digesta separation: Variation in fluid throughput in the digestive tract in mammalian herbivores

scientific article published on 12 June 2011

Predator size and prey size-gut capacity ratios determine kill frequency and carcass production in terrestrial carnivorous mammals

scientific article published on 27 July 2018

Preference of rabbits for drinking from open dishes versus nipple drinkers

scientific article published on 11 February 2011

Reproductive seasonality in captive wild ruminants: implications for biogeographical adaptation, photoperiodic control, and life history

scientific article published on 10 July 2012

Rumination of different-sized particles in muskoxen (Ovibos moschatus) and moose (Alces alces) on grass and browse diets, and implications for rumination in different ruminant feeding types

article

Seasonal and habitat effects on the nutritional properties of savanna vegetation: Potential implications for early hominin dietary ecology

scientific article published on 27 June 2019

Significance of diet type and diet quality for ecological diversity of African ungulates.

scientific article published on May 2007

Skeletal allometries in the leopard tortoise (Stigmochelys pardalis): Predicting chelonian body size and mass distributions in archaeozoological assemblages

scientific article

Small mammal insectivore stable carbon isotope compositions as habitat proxies in a South African savanna ecosystem

article

Stable carbon isotope ecology of small mammals from the Sterkfontein Valley: Implications for habitat reconstruction

scholarly article by Jennifer Leichliter published in November 2017

Stable carbon isotope reconstruction of ungulate diet changes through the seasonal cycle

article by Daryl Codron et al published October 2007 in South African Journal of Wildlife Research

Stable isotope characterization of mammalian predator–prey relationships in a South African savanna

scholarly article by Daryl Codron et al published 28 November 2006 in European Journal of Wildlife Research

Stable isotope evidence for impalaAepyceros melampusdiets at Akagera National Park, Rwanda

article

Stable isotope series from elephant ivory reveal lifetime histories of a true dietary generalist

scientific article (publication date: 22 June 2012)

Stable isotope turnover and variability in tail hairs of captive and free-ranging African elephants (Loxodonta africana) reveal dietary niche differences within populations

scientific article published in 2013

Strontium isotope evidence for landscape use by early hominins

scientific article (publication date: 2 June 2011)

Taxonomic, anatomical, and spatio-temporal variations in the stable carbon and nitrogen isotopic compositions of plants from an African savanna

article

The confounding effects of source isotopic heterogeneity on consumer-diet and tissue-tissue stable isotope relationships

scientific article published on 17 February 2012

The ecomorphology of southern African rodent incisors: Potential applications to the hominin fossil record

scientific article published on 20 February 2019

The effect of size and density on the mean retention time of particles in the reticulorumen of cattle ( Bos primigenius f. taurus), muskoxen ( Ovibos moschatus) and moose ( Alces alces).

scientific article published on 14 December 2010

The uneven weight distribution between predators and prey: Comparing gut fill between terrestrial herbivores and carnivores

scientific article published on 22 February 2020

The way wear goes: phytolith-based wear on the dentine-enamel system in guinea pigs (Cavia porcellus)

scientific article published on 09 October 2019

Tooth length and incisal wear and growth in guinea pigs (Cavia porcellus) fed diets of different abrasiveness

scientific article published on 12 July 2014

Tooth wear in captive rhinoceroses (Diceros, Rhinoceros, Ceratotherium: Perissodactyla) differs from that of free-ranging conspecifics

scientific article published in March 2014

Tracking the fate of digesta 13C and 15N compositions along the ruminant gastrointestinal tract: Does digestion influence the relationship between diet and faeces?

article

Trophic ecology of two savanna grazers, blue wildebeest Connochaetes taurinus and black wildebeest Connochaetes gnou

Using carbon isotopes to track dietary change in modern, historical, and ancient primates

scientific article

Water intake in domestic rabbits (Oryctolagus cuniculus) from open dishes and nipple drinkers under different water and feeding regimes

scientific article published on 22 November 2010

What Insights Can Baboon Feeding Ecology Provide for Early Hominin Niche Differentiation?

When animals are not quite what they eat: diet digestibility influences 13C-incorporation rates and apparent discrimination in a mixed-feeding herbivore

article by Daryl Codron et al published June 2011 in Canadian Journal of Zoology

Within trophic level shifts in collagen-carbonate stable carbon isotope spacing are propagated by diet and digestive physiology in large mammal herbivores.

scientific article published on 25 March 2018

Within-Population Isotopic Niche Variability in Savanna Mammals: Disparity between Carnivores and Herbivores

scientific article published in 2016

List of works by Daryl Codron

'Remote' behavioural ecology: do megaherbivores consume vegetation in proportion to its presence in the landscape?

A Brief Update on Developments in Early Hominin Biogeochemistry

A long life among ruminants: giraffids and other special cases

Another one bites the dust: faecal silica levels in large herbivores correlate with high-crowned teeth

Assessing the Jarman-Bell Principle: Scaling of intake, digestibility, retention time and gut fill with body mass in mammalian herbivores

Bergmann′s rule in mammals: a cross-species interspecific pattern

Body condition and ruminal morphology responses of free-ranging impala (Aepyceros melampus) to changes in diet

Bone mineral density in the leopard tortoise: Implications for inter-taxon variation and bone survivorship in an archaeozoological assemblage

Breeding Young as a Survival Strategy during Earth's Greatest Mass Extinction

Carnivore stable carbon isotope niches reflect predator-prey size relationships in African savannas

Chewing, dental morphology and wear in tapirs (Tapirus spp.) and a comparison of free-ranging and captive specimens

Comparative omasum anatomy in ruminants: Relationships with natural diet, digestive physiology, and general considerations on allometric investigations

Competition drives the evolution of emergent neutrality in the dietary niches of mammalian herbivores

Confirmation of a Wear-Compensation Mechanism in Dental Roots of Ruminants

Dental microwear texture analysis correlations in guinea pigs (Cavia porcellus) and sheep (Ovis aries) suggest that dental microwear texture signal consistency is species-specific

Detecting inter-cusp and inter-tooth wear patterns in rhinocerotids

Dichotomy of eutherian reproduction and metabolism

Diet and diet-related disorders in captive ruminants at the national zoological gardens of South Africa

Diet, habitat and flight characteristics correlate with intestine length in birds

Dietary Evolution: The Panda Paradox

Digesta passage in nondomestic ruminants: Separation mechanisms in 'moose-type' and 'cattle-type' species, and seemingly atypical browsers

Dry matter and digesta particle size gradients along the goat digestive tract on grass and browse diets

ELEPHANT (LOXODONTA AFRICANA) DIETS IN KRUGER NATIONAL PARK, SOUTH AFRICA: SPATIAL AND LANDSCAPE DIFFERENCES

Ecological interactions in dinosaur communities: influences of small offspring and complex ontogenetic life histories

Ecological modelling, size distributions and taphonomic size bias in dinosaur faunas: reply to Brown et al

Erratum: Strontium isotope evidence for landscape use by early hominins

Fecal Glucocorticoid Measurements and Their Relation to Rearing, Behavior, and Environmental Factors in the Population of Pileated Gibbons (Hylobates pileatus) Held in European Zoos

Fluid and particle passage in three duiker species

Forestomach pH in hunted roe deer (Capreolus capreolus) in relation to forestomach region, time of measurement and supplemental feeding and comparison among wild ruminant species

Geometric factors influencing the diet of vertebrate predators in marine and terrestrial environments

Grass leaves as potential hominin dietary resources

Gross intestinal morphometry and allometry in ruminants

Growth and wear of incisor and cheek teeth in domestic rabbits (Oryctolagus cuniculus) fed diets of different abrasiveness

Growth rate and stable carbon and nitrogen isotope trophic discrimination factors of lion and leopard whiskers.

Herbivory and body size: allometries of diet quality and gastrointestinal physiology, and implications for herbivore ecology and dinosaur gigantism

Hominins, sedges, and termites: new carbon isotope data from the Sterkfontein valley and Kruger National Park.

Hypsodonty and tooth facet development in relation to diet and habitat in herbivorous ungulates: implications for understanding tooth wear

Inter- and intrahabitat dietary variability of chacma baboons (Papio ursinus) in South African savannas based on fecal delta13C, delta15N, and %N.

Intrinsic factors, adrenal gland morphology, and disease burden in captive cheetahs (Acinonyx jubatus) in South Africa

Isotopic niche structure of a mammalian herbivore assemblage from a West African savanna: Body mass and seasonality effect

Landscape-scale feeding patterns of African elephant inferred from carbon isotope analysis of feces

Little differences in digestive efficiency for protein and fat in mammals of different trophic guilds and digestive strategies: data constraints or fundamental functional similarity?

Low scaling of a life history variable: Analysing eutherian gestation periods with and without phylogeny-informed statistics

Nutritional content of savanna plant foods: implications for browser/grazer models of ungulate diversification

Ontogenetic niche shifts in dinosaurs influenced size, diversity and extinction in terrestrial vertebrates

Phylogenetic constraints on digesta separation: Variation in fluid throughput in the digestive tract in mammalian herbivores

Predator size and prey size-gut capacity ratios determine kill frequency and carcass production in terrestrial carnivorous mammals

Preference of rabbits for drinking from open dishes versus nipple drinkers

Reproductive seasonality in captive wild ruminants: implications for biogeographical adaptation, photoperiodic control, and life history

Rumination of different-sized particles in muskoxen (Ovibos moschatus) and moose (Alces alces) on grass and browse diets, and implications for rumination in different ruminant feeding types

Seasonal and habitat effects on the nutritional properties of savanna vegetation: Potential implications for early hominin dietary ecology

Significance of diet type and diet quality for ecological diversity of African ungulates.

Skeletal allometries in the leopard tortoise (Stigmochelys pardalis): Predicting chelonian body size and mass distributions in archaeozoological assemblages

Small mammal insectivore stable carbon isotope compositions as habitat proxies in a South African savanna ecosystem

Stable carbon isotope ecology of small mammals from the Sterkfontein Valley: Implications for habitat reconstruction

Stable carbon isotope reconstruction of ungulate diet changes through the seasonal cycle

Stable isotope characterization of mammalian predator–prey relationships in a South African savanna

Stable isotope evidence for impalaAepyceros melampusdiets at Akagera National Park, Rwanda

Stable isotope series from elephant ivory reveal lifetime histories of a true dietary generalist

Stable isotope turnover and variability in tail hairs of captive and free-ranging African elephants (Loxodonta africana) reveal dietary niche differences within populations

Strontium isotope evidence for landscape use by early hominins

Taxonomic, anatomical, and spatio-temporal variations in the stable carbon and nitrogen isotopic compositions of plants from an African savanna

The confounding effects of source isotopic heterogeneity on consumer-diet and tissue-tissue stable isotope relationships

The ecomorphology of southern African rodent incisors: Potential applications to the hominin fossil record

The effect of size and density on the mean retention time of particles in the reticulorumen of cattle ( Bos primigenius f. taurus), muskoxen ( Ovibos moschatus) and moose ( Alces alces).

The uneven weight distribution between predators and prey: Comparing gut fill between terrestrial herbivores and carnivores

The way wear goes: phytolith-based wear on the dentine-enamel system in guinea pigs (Cavia porcellus)

Tooth length and incisal wear and growth in guinea pigs (Cavia porcellus) fed diets of different abrasiveness

Tooth wear in captive rhinoceroses (Diceros, Rhinoceros, Ceratotherium: Perissodactyla) differs from that of free-ranging conspecifics

Tracking the fate of digesta 13C and 15N compositions along the ruminant gastrointestinal tract: Does digestion influence the relationship between diet and faeces?

Trophic ecology of two savanna grazers, blue wildebeest Connochaetes taurinus and black wildebeest Connochaetes gnou

Using carbon isotopes to track dietary change in modern, historical, and ancient primates

Water intake in domestic rabbits (Oryctolagus cuniculus) from open dishes and nipple drinkers under different water and feeding regimes

What Insights Can Baboon Feeding Ecology Provide for Early Hominin Niche Differentiation?

When animals are not quite what they eat: diet digestibility influences 13C-incorporation rates and apparent discrimination in a mixed-feeding herbivore

Within trophic level shifts in collagen-carbonate stable carbon isotope spacing are propagated by diet and digestive physiology in large mammal herbivores.

Within-Population Isotopic Niche Variability in Savanna Mammals: Disparity between Carnivores and Herbivores