The importance of nutrient hotspots for grazing ungulates in a Miombo ecosystem, Tanzania.

While movement patterns of grazing ungulates are strongly dependent on forage quality their use of nutrient hotspots such as termite mounds or grazing lawns has rarely been quantified, especially in savanna ecosystems where soil-nutrient quality is low. Additionally, few experiments have been conduc...

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Main Authors: Gabriel Mayengo, Alex K Piel, Anna C Treydte
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2020-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0230192