Using Sporormiella to track herbivore biomass within the Hluhluwe-Imfolozi game reserve
Historical fossilised spores of Sporomiella, a coprophilous fungus that only grows on the dung of herbivores. has been used to infer unknown herbivore abundances or biomass and identity periods of mega-herbivore extinction in the palaeo-record. ln Africa. however. mega-herbivores are still extant an...
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University of Cape Town
2017
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Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/11427/25578 |