Spatial and temporal scaling in habitat utilization by klipspringers (Oreotragus oreotragus) determined using giving-up densities

Austral Ecology

Volumn 34, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 577-587

  Druce, Dave J ^a   Brown, Joel S ^b   Kerley, Graham I H ^c   Kotler, Burt P ^d   MacKey, Robin L ^a   Slotow, Rob ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^c NELSON MANDELA METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

^d BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

Escape substrate; Foraging costs; GUD; Landscape of fear; Predation risk

Indexed keywords

DENSITY DEPENDENCE; DRAINAGE NETWORK; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FOOD AVAILABILITY; FOOD INTAKE; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; HABITAT USE; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; NATIONAL PARK; NUTRITIVE VALUE; PEBBLE; PREDATION RISK; RUMINANT; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

AFRICA; AUGRABIES FALLS NATIONAL PARK; NORTHERN CAPE; SOUTH AFRICA; SOUTHERN AFRICA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

ANIMALIA; OREOTRAGUS OREOTRAGUS;

EID: 67649283376     PISSN: 14429985     EISSN: 14429993     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1442-9993.2009.01963.x     Document Type: Article

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