Resource partitioning among African savanna herbivores in North Cameroon: the importance of diet composition, food quality and body mass - de Iongh, H. H.; de Jong, C. B.; van Goethem, J.; Klop, E.; Brunsting, A. M. H.; Loth, P. E.; Prins, H. H. T. (Journal of tropical ecology, 2011)
Keywords: Animal and plant ecology; Animal, plant and microbial ecology; Aquatic mammals; benoue national-park; Biological and medical sciences; Body mass; Correlation analysis; Diet; Dry season; Dry seasons; Dung; Epidermis; facilitation; Feces; Food; Food chains; Food plants; Food quality; Food resources; Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology; Grasses; grazing herbivores; Herbivores; hippopotamidae; Hippopotamus; microhistological analysis; Niche breadth; Niche differentiation; Nitrogen; Nutritional adequacy; nutritional ecology; postfire regrowth; Rainy season; Rainy seasons; Resource partitioning; ruminants; Savannahs; Seasons; segregation; size; Synecology; Terrestrial ecosystems; Zebu; Africa; savanna ecosystems; competition; faecal analysis; herbivores; ungulates; dietary overlap