Large herbivore responses to water and settlements in savannas

Ecological Monographs

Volumn 80, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 241-266

  Ogutu, Joseph O ^a,b   Piepho, Hans Peter ^b   Reid, Robin S ^a,c   Rainy, Michael E ^a   Kruska, Russell L ^a   Worden, Jeffrey S ^a,c   Nyabenge, Meshack ^a   Hobbs, N Thompson ^c  

^a INTERNATIONAL LIVESTOCK RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Kenya)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HOHENHEIM   (Germany)

^c Veterinary Dentistry and Oral Surgery   (United States)

Author keywords

Constrained foraging; Dispersal movements; Distance to settlements; Distance to water; Hurdle models; Land use; Livestock; Maasai Mara reserve; Rainfall variability; Spatial segregation; Wildlife; Zero inflated models

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; DISPERSAL; HERBIVORE; INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION; LAND USE; LIVESTOCK; PASTORALISM; POPULATION DECLINE; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; RESOURCE USE; SAVANNA; SEMIARID REGION; SETTLEMENT PATTERN; WATER AVAILABILITY;

AFRICA;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 77951714658     PISSN: 00129615     EISSN: 15577015     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/09-0439.1     Document Type: Article

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