Bottom-up and top-down processes in African ungulate communities: Resources and predation acting on the relative abundance of zebra and grazing bovids

Ecography

Volumn 29, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 899-907

  Grange, Sophie ^a,b   Duncan, Patrick ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE POITIERS   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BODY SIZE; BOTTOM-UP CONTROL; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; FELID; PREDATION; RESOURCE AVAILABILITY; TOP-DOWN CONTROL; UNGULATE;

AFRICA; EAST AFRICA; KRUGER NATIONAL PARK; SERENGETI; SOUTH AFRICA; SOUTHERN AFRICA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; TANZANIA;

BOVIDAE; EQUIDAE; EQUUS BURCHELLII; EQUUS SUBG. HIPPOTIGRIS; MAMMALIA; UNGULATA;

EID: 33846437495     PISSN: 09067590     EISSN: 16000587     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.2006.0906-7590.04684.x     Document Type: Article

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