Competition and Resource Partitioning in Temperate Ungulate Assemblies - Putman, R.J.; SpringerLink (Online service) (Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 1996)
1 Introduction -- 1.1 Multispecies systems and the potential for interaction -- 1.2 Mechanisms of coexistence -- 1.3 The evidence for competition -- 1.4 Establishing competition in natural communities -- 2 The New Forest and its larger herbivores -- 2.1 The New Forest -- 2.2 The effects of grazing in the New Forest -- 2.3 Effects of grazing on the Forest fauna -- 2.4 The Forest's large herbivores and their management -- 2.5 Current populations -- 2.6 Reprise -- 3 Ecology and behaviour of the Forest's fallow deer -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Social organization -- 3.3 Patterns of habitat use -- 3.4 Diet -- 4 Behaviour and ecology of sika, red and roe -- 4.1 Behaviour and ecology of New Forest sika -- 4.2 Social organization -- 4.3 Habitat use -- 4.4 Diet -- 4.5 Red deer -- 4.6 Behaviour and ecology of the Forest roe deer -- 4.7 Diet -- 4.8 Patterns of habitat use -- 4.9 Roe deer habitat use and population performance -- 5 The domestic stock of the New Forest -- 5.1 The history of Common pasturage -- 5.2 Social organization and behaviour -- 5.3 Patterns of habitat use -- 5.4 Diet -- 5.5 Individual variation in patterns of resource use and cycles in body condition -- 5.6 Feeding behaviour of cattle and ponies: different strategies of exploitation -- 6 The potential for competition -- 6.1 Overlaps in resource use -- 6.2 Resource limitation -- 6.3 The potential for competition -- 6.4 Ecological interaction and population trend -- 7 Factors structuring resource relationships in ungulate assemblies -- 7.1 Interactions among New Forest herbivores -- 7.2 Does competition or predation structure ungulate assemblies? -- 7.3 The evidence for competitive interaction in natural ungulate assemblies -- References.
Keywords: Ecology .; Nature conservation; Animal ecology; Zoology; Ecology; Nature Conservation; Animal Ecology; Zoology