Vegetation modification and resource competition in grazing ungulates

• Published in: Oikos Vol. 89; no. 3; pp. 501 - 508
• Main Authors: Murray, Martyn G., Illius, Andrew W.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Copenhagen Munksgaard 01.06.2000; Munksgaard International Publishers, Ltd; Blackwell
• Subjects: Animal and plant ecology; Animal, plant and microbial ecology; Animals; Biological and medical sciences; Connochaetes taurinus; Damaliscus lunatus; Ecological competition; Finches; Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology; Grasses; Grazing; Interspecific competition; Population ecology; Sward; Synecology; Terrestrial ecosystems; Ungulates; Wildebeest; Africa; Tanzania; Modification; Browsing; Resource repartition; Serengeti National Park; Vertebrata; Mammalia; Food intake; Animal plant relation; Vegetation; Interspecific competition; Niche; Artiodactyla; Ungulata

The prevalence of interspecific competition in animal communities is the subject of a long-running debate, chiefly because the underlying processes of resource exploitation and resource supply are often poorly understood. To provide some insight into these processes within a guild of grazing herbivo...