Putman Competition and Resource Partitioning in Temperate Ungulate Assemblies

Erscheinungsjahr 2012
ISBN: 978-94-009-1517-6
Verlag: Springer Netherland
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 131 Seiten, eBook

Reihe: Chapman & Hall Wildlife Ecology and Behaviour Series

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.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Putman, R.J.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1 Introduction.- 1.1 Multispecies systems and the potential for interaction.- 1.2 Mechanisms of coexistence.- 1.3 The evidence for competition.- 1.4 Establishing competition in natural communities.- 2 The New Forest and its larger herbivores.- 2.1 The New Forest.- 2.2 The effects of grazing in the New Forest.- 2.3 Effects of grazing on the Forest fauna.- 2.4 The Forest’s large herbivores and their management.- 2.5 Current populations.- 2.6 Reprise.- 3 Ecology and behaviour of the Forest’s fallow deer.- 3.1 Introduction.- 3.2 Social organization.- 3.3 Patterns of habitat use.- 3.4 Diet.- 4 Behaviour and ecology of sika, red and roe.- 4.1 Behaviour and ecology of New Forest sika.- 4.2 Social organization.- 4.3 Habitat use.- 4.4 Diet.- 4.5 Red deer.- 4.6 Behaviour and ecology of the Forest roe deer.- 4.7 Diet.- 4.8 Patterns of habitat use.- 4.9 Roe deer habitat use and population performance.- 5 The domestic stock of the New Forest.- 5.1 The history of Common pasturage.- 5.2 Social organization and behaviour.- 5.3 Patterns of habitat use.- 5.4 Diet.- 5.5 Individual variation in patterns of resource use and cycles in body condition.- 5.6 Feeding behaviour of cattle and ponies: different strategies of exploitation.- 6 The potential for competition.- 6.1 Overlaps in resource use.- 6.2 Resource limitation.- 6.3 The potential for competition.- 6.4 Ecological interaction and population trend.- 7 Factors structuring resource relationships in ungulate assemblies.- 7.1 Interactions among New Forest herbivores.- 7.2 Does competition or predation structure ungulate assemblies?.- 7.3 The evidence for competitive interaction in natural ungulate assemblies.- References.