Landscape-scale analyses suggest both nutrient and antipredator advantages to Serengeti herbivore hotspots

Ecology

Volumn 91, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1519-1529

  Anderson, T Michael ^a,e   Hopcraft, J Grant C ^a,b   Stephanie, Eby ^c   Ritchie, Mark ^c   Grace, James B ^d   Olff, Han ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b Frankfurt Zoological Society Arusha   (Tanzania)

^c SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d NATIONAL WETLANDS RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^e WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Forage quantity vs. Quality; Grazing lawns; Herbivore habitat selection; Near infrared difference vegetation index (ndvi); Predator prey; Remote sensing; Serengeti; Soil nutrients; Structural equation modeling; Topographic relief; Ungulate spatial distribution

Indexed keywords

ANTIPREDATOR DEFENSE; FOOD AVAILABILITY; FORAGE; HABITAT SELECTION; HERBIVORE; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; NDVI; PHYTOMASS; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; REMOTE SENSING; SOIL FERTILITY; SOIL NUTRIENT; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; UNGULATE;

AFRICA; ANIMAL; ANTELOPE; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; DEMOGRAPHY; ECOSYSTEM; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; HORSE; PHYSIOLOGY; SWINE;

AFRICA; ANIMALS; ANTELOPES; DEMOGRAPHY; ECOSYSTEM; EQUIDAE; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SWINE;

SERENGETI; TANZANIA;

UNGULATA;

EID: 77951875898     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/09-0739.1     Document Type: Article

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