Opposing rainfall and plant nutritional gradients best explain the wildebeest migration in the serengeti

American Naturalist

Volumn 173, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 431-445

  Holdo, Ricardo M ^a   Holt, Robert D ^a   Fryxell, John M ^b  

^a University of Florida ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

Author keywords

Connochaetes taurinus; Dynamic model fitting; Emergent behaviors; Resource landscapes; Spatial autocorrelation

Indexed keywords

RAIN;

AUTOCORRELATION; BIOMASS; ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECT; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; GRASS; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; MIGRATION; MIGRATORY BEHAVIOR; NUTRIENT AVAILABILITY; NUTRIENT UPTAKE; PROTEIN; RAINFALL; RUMINANT;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL FOOD; ARTICLE; BOVIDS; ECOSYSTEM; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; PHYSIOLOGY; POACEAE; POPULATION MIGRATION; TANZANIA; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ANIMAL MIGRATION; ANIMAL NUTRITIONAL PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; ANIMALS; ECOSYSTEM; MODELS, THEORETICAL; POACEAE; RAIN; RUMINANTS; TANZANIA;

AFRICA; EAST AFRICA; SERENGETI; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; TANZANIA;

CONNOCHAETES TAURINUS; UNGULATA;

EID: 63449089202     PISSN: 00030147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/597229     Document Type: Article

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