Contrasting timing of parturition of chital Axis axis and gaur Bos gaurus in tropical South India - the role of body mass and seasonal forage quality

Oikos

Volumn 121, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 1300-1310

  Ahrestani, Farshid S ^a,b   Van Langevelde, Frank ^a   Heitkönig, Ignas M A ^a   Prins, Herbert H T ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b Columbia Univ ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; BODY MASS; CATTLE; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; GROWTH RATE; NEONATE; PARTURITION; RAINFALL; SEASONALITY;

INDIA;

BOS GAURUS; CERVUS AXIS;

EID: 84863881622     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: 16000706     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0706.2011.20244.x     Document Type: Article

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