A Haunting Legacy from Isoclines: Mammal Coexistence and the Ghost of Competition

Comparative nutrient extraction from for

Comparative nutrient extraction from forages by grazing bovids and equids: a test of the nutritional model of equid/bovid competition and coexistence

✍ Patrick Duncan; T. J. Foose; I. J. Gordon; C. G. Gakahu; Monte Lloyd 📂 Article 📅 1990 🏛 Springer-Verlag 🌐 English ⚖ 853 KB

Ruminants are unevenly distributed across the range of body sizes observed in herbivorous mammals; among extant East African species they predominate, in numbers and species richness, in the medium body sizes (10-600 kg). The small and the large species are all hind-gut fermenters. Some medium-sized