Can sacrificial feeding areas protect aquatic plants from herbivore grazing? Using behavioural ecology to inform wildlife management

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 7, 2014, Pages

  Wood, Kevin A ^a,b   Stillman, Richard A ^b   Daunt, Francis ^a   O'Hare, Matthew T ^a  

^a CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^b BOURNEMOUTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AQUATIC SPECIES; ARTICLE; BIOMASS; CYGNUS OLOR; ECONOMIC ASPECT; ENVIRONMENTAL CARRYING CAPACITY; FEEDING ECOLOGY; FOOD QUALITY; FORAGER; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; GRAZING; HERBIVORE; MEASUREMENT ACCURACY; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; PLANT HERBIVORE INTERACTION; PROCESS MODEL; RIVER; SACRIFICIAL FEEDING AREA; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; VEGETATION; WILDLIFE CONSERVATION; ANIMAL; ECOSYSTEM; ENERGY CONSERVATION; HERBIVORY; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT; THEORETICAL MODEL; WATERFOWL;

ANIMALS; ANSERIFORMES; CONSERVATION OF ENERGY RESOURCES; ECOSYSTEM; HERBIVORY; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PLANTS; RIVERS;

EID: 84905251778     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0104034     Document Type: Article

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