The Seasonal Dietary Shift and Niche Resilience of Yaks on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau.

Shuai Zheng, Yuning Ru, Mengyuan Xu, Yushou Ma, Yuan Ma, Na Guo

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Article in Animals : an open access journal from MDPI, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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Segment-Specific Gut Microbiome and Bile Acid Profiles in Grazing and Stall-Fed Yaks.Microorganisms · 2026
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6 authors.

Shuai ZhengQinghai Provincial Key Laboratory of Adaptive Management on Alpine Grassland, Academy of Animal Science and Veterinary Medicine, Qinghai University, Xining 810016, China.

Yuning RuSchool of Life Sciences, Shandong University, Qingdao 266237, China.

Mengyuan XuSchool of Life Sciences, Shandong University, Qingdao 266237, China.

Yushou MaQinghai Provincial Key Laboratory of Adaptive Management on Alpine Grassland, Academy of Animal Science and Veterinary Medicine, Qinghai University, Xining 810016, China.

Yuan MaQinghai Provincial Key Laboratory of Adaptive Management on Alpine Grassland, Academy of Animal Science and Veterinary Medicine, Qinghai University, Xining 810016, China.

Na GuoQinghai Provincial Key Laboratory of Adaptive Management on Alpine Grassland, Academy of Animal Science and Veterinary Medicine, Qinghai University, Xining 810016, China.

Funding

Chief Scientist Program of Qinghai Province 2024-SF-101

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Understanding how herbivores adjust their foraging strategies to cope with seasonal resource fluctuations has been central to the nutritional ecology. Optimal Foraging Theory (OFT) predicts that generalists should broaden their dietary niche when high-quality resources are scarce, but empirical evidence in extreme environments remains poorly understood. We used

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dietary selectionforaging strategyniche breadthQinghai–Tibetan Plateauyak

Identifiers

PMID41751074

DOI10.3390/ani16040613

PMCPMC12937314

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