Seasonal foraging responses of beavers to sodium-enhanced foods: an experimental assessment with field feeding trials

Salt drive is a seasonal phenomenon common to several classes of wild herbivores. Coincident with shifts of nutrient quality when plants resume growth in the spring, sodium is secondarily lost as surplus potassium is excreted. The beaver (Castor canadensis) is an herbivore whose dietary niche closel...

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