Dietary shifts: do grazers become browsers in the Thicket Biome?
The diet of buffalo (Syncerus coffer) and Burchell's zebra (Equus burchelli) was investigated in the Addo Elephant National Park to test the hypothesis that the shortage of grass associated with thicket vegetation results in grazers increasing the proportion of dicotyledonous plant species in t...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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AOSIS
2001-07-01
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Series: | Koedoe: African Protected Area Conservation and Science |
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Online Access: | https://koedoe.co.za/index.php/koedoe/article/view/183 |