The Role of Individual Traits and Environmental Factors for Diet Composition of Sheep.

Large herbivore consumption of forage is known to affect vegetation composition and thereby ecosystem functions. It is thus important to understand how diet composition arises as a mixture of individual variation in preferences and environmental drivers of availability, but few studies have quantifi...

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Main Authors: Atle Mysterud, Gunnar Austrheim
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2016-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4701509?pdf=render