Resource partitioning between sympatric wild and domestic herbivores in the Tarangire region of Tanzania

Oecologia

Volumn 120, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 287-294

  Voeten, Margje M ^a   Prins, Herbert H T ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Competition; Grazers; Niche; Savanna; Ungulates

Indexed keywords

COMPETITION; INTRODUCED SPECIES; NICHE PARTITIONING; RESOURCE USE;

TANZANIA;

EID: 0032813405     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004420050860     Document Type: Article

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