Allometric scaling predicts preferences for burned patches in a guild of East African grazers

Ecology

Volumn 91, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 2898-2907

  Sensenig, Ryan L ^a,b,c   Demment, Montague W ^a   Laca, Emilio A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b MPALA RESEARCH CENTRE   (Kenya)

^c GOSHEN COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

African ungulates; Allometric scaling; Body size; Ecophysiology; Fire ecology; Grazing ecology; Hindgut fermenter; Resource partitioning; Savanna

Indexed keywords

ALLOMETRY; BODY MASS; BODY SIZE; BURNING; ECOPHYSIOLOGY; ELEPHANT; FOOD SUPPLY; FORAGE; GRAZING; GUILD; HERBIVORE; HETEROGENEITY; LAGOMORPH; NICHE PARTITIONING; SAVANNA; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; SPATIAL ANALYSIS;

ADAPTATION; AFRICA; ANIMAL; ANTELOPE; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BODY SIZE; ECOSYSTEM; ELEPHANT; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FIRE; HARE; HORSE; STATISTICAL MODEL; SWINE;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; AFRICA; ANIMALS; ANTELOPES; BODY SIZE; ECOSYSTEM; ELEPHANTS; EQUIDAE; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FIRES; HARES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; SWINE;

EAST AFRICA;

UNGULATA;

EID: 77957735637     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/09-1673.1     Document Type: Article

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