Large herbivores and savanna heterogeneity

By Du Toit. 2003

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Citations in the corpus

• Dry season diets of sympatric ungulates in lowland Nepal: competition and facilitation in alluvial tall grasslands (2006, background): “…1960; Gwynne and Bell 1968; Bell 1970; McNaughton 1979; Jarman and Sinclair 1979; Jenkins and Wright 1988; Gordon and Illius 1989; Putman 1996; Johnson et al. 2000; Voeten and Prins 1999; Mysterud 2000; Woolnough and du Toit 2001; Stewart et al. 2003; du Toit 2003; Gayot et al. 2004).”
• Nutritional content of savanna plant foods: implications for browser/grazer models of ungulate diversification (2007, background): “However, these studies do not control for dietary variations within species, which even among predominantly browsing and grazing taxa are often substantial across space and time (data reviewed in Owen-Smith 1997 and du Toit 2003).”
• Diets of savanna ungulates from stable carbon isotope composition of faeces (2007, background): “The dietary niches of ungulates are most often explained along a browser/grazer continuum, with three guilds typically recognized: browsers, grazers and mixed-feeders (Hofmann & Stewart, 1972; Jarman, 1974; Hofmann, 1989; Owen-Smith, 1997; du Toit, 2003).”
• Prey preferences of the leopard (Panthera pardus) (2006, background): “These preference values may be underestimates, as there are numerous anecdotes of leopards killing other carnivores (Estes, 1967; Pienaar, 1969; Hamilton, 1976; Bertram, 1982; le Roux & Skinner, 1989; Bailey, 1993; Bothma, 1997; Stander et al., 1997; Mills & Funston, 2003).”
• Stable isotope characterization of mammalian predator–prey relationships in a South African savanna (2007, background): “By contrast, most other carnivores included in this study feed predominantly on vertebrates, either medium- to large-sized ungulates, murids and other small mammals, or birds (Pienaar 1969; Skinner and Smithers 1990; Avenant and Nel 2002; Mills and Funston 2003).”
• Prey preferences of the lion (Panthera leo) (2005, background): “Increased water availability led to increased lion predation on roan antelope (Harrington et al., 1999) probably through altered habitat conditions (Mills & Funston, 2003).”