Competition and Resource Partitioning in Temperate Ungulate Assemblies: v. 3 (Chapman and Hall Wildlife Ecology and Behaviour Series) - Hardcover

Putman, R.J.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0412785706 ISBN 13: 9780412785702

Publisher: Chapman and Hall, 1996

Synopsis

In this book, the author addresses the question of how, in many temporate ecosystems, diverse and species-rich assemblies of ungulates manage to co-exist despite often quite extensive overlap in ecological requirements. Putman explores the potential for competition, competition tolerance and even positive facilitation amongst the members of such guilds of ungulates. As a central worked example, the author employs data resulting from over 20 years personal research into the ecology and population dynamics of various large herbivores of the New Forest in Southern England. With these, he applies formal protocols in resource use, evidence for resource limitation and evidence for interaction between species in changing population size over the years. In careful review of published studies of interaction amongst other multispecies ungulate assemblies in Europe and North America conclusions about the forces structuring resource relationships are then extended to consider how widely these conclusions may hold. This volume explores in detail the behaviour and ecology of particular species and discusses wider issues of how particular aspects of the described behaviour or ecology may be adaptive. It provides an insight on a major question in behavioural ecology of interest to wildlife biologists, ecologists, zoologists and conservation biologists.

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Review

...a valuable summary - Journal of Animal Ecology.

About the Author

Rory Putman worked for many years within the Biology Department of the University of Southampton, where he established and led the University's highly-regarded Deer Management Research group; latterly he moved to become Research Professor of Behavioural and Environmental Biology at the Manchester Metropolitan University. He now works as a freelance environmental consultant and wildlife adviser based in Scotland. He has worked widely in the UK and overseas, with research efforts focused on the population ecology of ungulates and their interaction with their vegetational environment - always with the explicit focus of helping to develop more sensitive and more effective methods of managing those same ungulate populations and their impacts on agriculture, forestry or conservation interests.

Edition details

• Publisher: Chapman and Hall
• Publication date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0412785706
• ISBN 13: 9780412785702
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 152