Cryptic Consumers and the Ecology of an African Savanna

By Felicia Keesing. 2000

146 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Infectious Diseases, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health

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In Infectious Diseases

1. T. Young
2. Markus Abbt
3. Werner A. Stahel
4. E. Limpert
5. Richard S. Ostfeld
6. B. E. Allan
7. J. Goheen
8. D. Ogada

In Nature and Landscape Conservation

1. T. Young
2. J. Goheen
3. Markus Abbt
4. Werner A. Stahel
5. E. Limpert
6. Aaron J. Wirsing
7. Mike Letnic
8. B. E. Allan

In Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health

1. T. Young
2. Richard S. Ostfeld
3. Markus Abbt
4. Werner A. Stahel
5. E. Limpert
6. J. Goheen
7. D. Ogada
8. B. E. Allan

Citations in the corpus

• Log-normal Distributions across the Sciences: Keys and Clues (2001, methodology): “The current practice in science is to use symmetrical bars in graphs to indicate standard deviations or errors, and the sign ± to summarize data, even though the data or the underlying principles may suggest skewed distributions (Factor et al. 2000, Keesing 2000, Le Naour et al. 2000, Rhew et al. ”
• The effects of pastoralism and protection on the density and distribution of carnivores and their prey in the Mara ecosystem of Kenya (2005, background): “Keesing (2000) also reported a burst in small mammal populations but a decline in species diversity inside exclosures at the Mpala ranch in Kenya owing to removal of competition for food and\or habitat disturbance by ungulates.”
• Cascading Consequences of the Loss of Large Mammals in an African Savanna (2014, methodology): “In the early years of KLEE, the cover was fairly similar on all of the types of plots (Keesing 2000), which suggests that, at least at first, differences in exposure to predators could not explain higher abundances of mice on plots without large mammals.”
• Lessons on the relationship between livestock husbandry and biodiversity from the Kenya Long-term Exclosure Experiment (KLEE) (2012, background): “These “cryptic consumers” (Keesing 2000) also increased in plots from which we have excluded large herbivores.”
• Widespread mesopredator effects after wolf extirpation (2013, background): “In Africa, likely because of reduced forage and/or cover availability, the density of small mammals was significantly higher where ungulates were absent compared to where these large herbivores were present (Keesing, 2000).”
• NET EFFECTS OF LARGE MAMMALS ON ACACIA SEEDLING SURVIVAL IN AN AFRICAN SAVANNA (2004, methodology): “Rodents were trapped from 30 May–20 June 2002 in conjunction with ongoing research to assess the impact of megaherbivores (elephants, giraffe), other native ungulates, and cattle upon small-mammal community dynamics (Keesing 1998, 2000).”