Competition and Resource Partitioning in Temperate Ungulate Assemblies

Competition and Resource Partitioning in Temperate Ungulate Assemblies

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Putman, R.J. (Autor)
Autor Corporativo: SpringerLink (Online service)
Formato: eBook
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 1996.
Edición:1st ed. 1996.
Colección:Chapman & Hall Wildlife Ecology and Behaviour Series
Materias:
Ecology .
Nature conservation.
Animal ecology.
Zoology.
Ecology.
Nature Conservation.
Animal Ecology.
Acceso en línea:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-1517-6
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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