Habitat segregation in ungulates: Are males forced into suboptimal foraging habitats through indirect competition by females?

Oecologia

Volumn 119, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 367-377

  Conradt, L ^a   Clutton Brock, T H ^a   Thomson, D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Body size dimorphism; Grazing behaviour; Herbivore ecology; Jarman Bell principle; Sexual segregation

Indexed keywords

FORAGING BEHAVIOR; HABITAT USE; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; INTERSEXUAL INTERACTION; INTRASPECIFIC COMPETITION; UNGULATE;

UNITED KINGDOM;

CERVUS ELAPHUS;

EID: 0033034706     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004420050797     Document Type: Article

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