Competition and resource partitioning in temperate ungulate assemblies
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Competition and resource partitioning in temperate ungulate assemblies
（Wildlife ecology and behaviour series, 3）
Chapman & Hall, 1996
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Bibliography: p. 117-128
Includes index
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: pbk ISBN 9780412612404
Description
Rory Putman addresses the question of how, in many temporate ecosystems, diverse and species-rich assemblies of ungulates manage to co-exist despite often quite extensive overlap in ecological requirements. Putman explores the potential for competition, competition tolerance and even positive facilitation amongst the members of such guilds of ungulates. As a central worked example, the author employs data resulting from over 20 years of personal research into the ecology and population dynamics of various large herbivores of the New Forest in Southern England. With these, he applies formal protocols in resource use, evidence for resource limitation and evidence for interaction between species in changing population size over the years.
Table of Contents
Series Editor's Foreword. Preface and Acknowledgments. Technical Preface. Chapter 1: Introduction. Chapter 2: The New Forest and its larger herbivores. Chapter 3: Ecology and behaviour of the Forest's fallow deer. Chapter 4: Behaviour and ecology of sika, red and roe. Chapter 5: The domestic stock of the New Forest. Chapter 6: The potential for competition. Chapter 7: Factors structuring resource relationships in ungulate assemblies. References.
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ISBN 9780412785702
Description
In this book, the author addresses the question of how, in many temporate ecosystems, diverse and species-rich assemblies of ungulates manage to co-exist despite often quite extensive overlap in ecological requirements. Putman explores the potential for competition, competition tolerance and even positive facilitation amongst the members of such guilds of ungulates. As a central worked example, the author employs data resulting from over 20 years personal research into the ecology and population dynamics of various large herbivores of the New Forest in Southern England. With these, he applies formal protocols in resource use, evidence for resource limitation and evidence for interaction between species in changing population size over the years. In careful review of published studies of interaction amongst other multispecies ungulate assemblies in Europe and North America conclusions about the forces structuring resource relationships are then extended to consider how widely these conclusions may hold.
This volume explores in detail the behaviour and ecology of particular species and discusses wider issues of how particular aspects of the described behaviour or ecology may be adaptive. It provides an insight on a major question in behavioural ecology of interest to wildlife biologists, ecologists, zoologists and conservation biologists.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Introduction. Chapter 2: The New Forest and its larger herbivores. Chapter 3: Ecology and behaviour of the Forest's fallow deer. Chapter 4: Behaviour and ecology of sika, red and roe. Chapter 5: The domestic stock of the New Forest. Chapter 6: The potential for competition. Chapter 7: Factors structuring resource relationships in ungulate assemblies.
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