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Jürgen Hummel is affiliated with the University of Göttingen in Germany and has contributed extensively to the field of Agricultural and Biological Sciences. Their research spans several subfields, including Agronomy and Crop Science, Animal Science and Zoology, Genetics, Ecology, and Anthropology.

The scientist's work covers a range of main topics such as Ruminant Nutrition and Digestive Physiology, Genetic and Phenotypic Traits in Livestock, Effects of Environmental Stressors on Livestock, Reproductive Physiology in Livestock, Animal Nutrition and Physiology, Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, as well as nutrition, reproduction, and health in rabbits.

Jürgen Hummel has been involved in numerous publications across several scientific journals. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Journal of Animal Physiology and Animal Nutrition
  • Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology
  • Animals
  • Journal of Dairy Science
  • Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part A Molecular & Integrative Physiology

Some of the recent papers authored or co-authored by Jürgen Hummel illustrate the range of subjects addressed in their research:

  • The turnover of dental microwear texture: Testing the" last supper" effect in small mammals in a controlled feeding experiment, 2020, Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology
  • Everything matters: Molar microwear texture in goats (Capra aegagrus hircus) fed diets of different abrasiveness, 2020, Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology
  • Mesowear represents a lifetime signal in sheep (Ovis aries) within a long-term feeding experiment, 2020, Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology
  • Dental wear at macro- and microscopic scale in rabbits fed diets of different abrasiveness: A pilot investigation, 2020, Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology
  • Growth Performance of Local Chicken Breeds, a High-Performance Genotype and Their Crosses Fed with Regional Faba Beans to Replace Soy, 2020, Animals

Collaboration is evident through frequent co-authors involved in their work, including:

  • Marcus Clauß
  • Daryl Codron
  • Jean-Michel Hatt
  • Louise F. Martin
  • Ellen Kienzle

Best Publications

  • Biology of the sauropod dinosaurs: the evolution of gigantism.

    P. Martin Sander;Andreas Christian;Marcus Clauss;Regina Fechner

  • Evolutionary adaptations of ruminants and their potential relevance for modern production systems.

    Marcus Clauss;I D Hume;J Hummel

  • A case of non-scaling in mammalian physiology? Body size, digestive capacity, food intake, and ingesta passage in mammalian herbivores ☆

    Marcus Clauss;Angela Schwarm;Sylvia Ortmann;W. Jürgen Streich

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

    Dennis W.H. Müller;Daryl Codron;Carlo Meloro;Adam Munn

  • The Morphophysiological Adaptations of Browsing and Grazing Mammals

    Marcus Clauss;Thomas Kaiser;Jürgen Hummel

  • Journal of Animal Physiology and Animal Nutrition

    Michel Goldberg;Manfred Kirchgessner;Klaus Eder;Nadia Everaert

  • Comparative Chewing Efficiency in Mammalian Herbivores

    Julia Fritz;Jürgen Hummel;Ellen Kienzle;Christian Arnold

  • Forage fermentation patterns and their implications for herbivore ingesta retention times

    J Hummel;K H Südekum;W J Streich;Marcus Clauss

  • Differential effects of monensin and a blend of essential oils on rumen microbiota composition of transition dairy cows

    Melanie Schären;Caroline Drong;K. Kiri;S. Riede

  • The digestive performance of mammalian herbivores: why big may not be that much better

    Marcus Clauss;Jürgen Hummel

  • Evidence for a tradeoff between retention time and chewing efficiency in large mammalian herbivores.

    Marcus Clauss;Charles Lindsay Nunn;Julia Fritz;Jürgen Hummel

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

    Jürgen Hummel;Eva Findeisen;Karl-Heinz Südekum;Irina Ruf

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

    Jacqueline Müller;Marcus Clauss;Daryl Codron;Ellen Schulz

  • In vitro digestibility of fern and gymnosperm foliage: implications for sauropod feeding ecology and diet selection

    Jürgen Hummel;Carole T Gee;Karl-Heinz Südekum;P. Martin Sander

  • The relationship between forage cell wall content and voluntary food intake in mammalian herbivores

    Kerstin Meyer;Jürgen Hummel;Marcus Clauss

  • Interrelations between the rumen microbiota and production, behavioral, rumen fermentation, metabolic, and immunological attributes of dairy cows.

    M. Schären;J. Frahm;S. Kersten;U. Meyer

  • The relationship of food intake and ingesta passage predicts feeding ecology in two different megaherbivore groups

    Marcus Clauss;W. Jürgen Streich;Angela Schwarm;Sylvia Ortmann

  • The dissociation of the fluid and particle phase in the forestomach as a physiological characteristic of large grazing ruminants: an evaluation of available, comparable ruminant passage data

    Marcus Clauss;Jürgen Hummel;W. Jürgen Streich

  • Convergent evolution in feeding types: salivary gland mass differences in wild ruminant species.

    Reinold R Hofmann;W Jürgen Streich;Joerns Fickel;Jürgen Hummel

  • The intraruminal papillation gradient in wild ruminants of different feeding types: Implications for rumen physiology.

    Marcus Clauss;Reinhold R. Hofmann;Jörns Fickel;W. Jürgen Streich

  • Physical characteristics of rumen contents in four large ruminants of different feeding type, the addax (Addax nasomaculatus), bison (Bison bison), red deer (Cervus elaphus) and moose (Alces alces).

    Marcus Clauss;Julia Fritz;Dorotheea Bayer;Kaarlo Nygrén

  • Differential passage of fluids and different-sized particles in fistulated oxen (Bos primigenius f. taurus), muskoxen (Ovibos moschatus), reindeer (Rangifer tarandus) and moose (Alces alces): rumen particle size discrimination is independent from contents stratification.

    Isabel Lechner;Perry Barboza;William Collins;Julia Fritz

  • Differences in fecal particle size between free-ranging and captive individuals of two browser species.

    Jürgen Hummel;Julia Fritz;Ellen Kienzle;E. Patricia Medici

  • Intake, selection, digesta retention, digestion and gut fill of two coprophageous species, rabbits (Oryctolagus cuniculus) and guinea pigs (Cavia porcellus), on a hay‐only diet

    R Franz;Michael Kreuzer;J Hummel;Jean-Michel Hatt

Frequent Co-Authors

Marcus Clauss
Marcus Clauss University of Zurich
Jean-Michel Hatt
Jean-Michel Hatt University of Zurich
Daryl Codron
Daryl Codron University of the Free State
Sylvia Ortmann
Sylvia Ortmann Leibniz Association
Karl-Heinz Südekum
Karl-Heinz Südekum University of Bonn
W. Jürgen Streich
W. Jürgen Streich Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research
Ellen Kienzle
Ellen Kienzle Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Angela Schwarm
Angela Schwarm Norwegian University of Life Sciences
Ulrich Meyer
Ulrich Meyer Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut

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