Title
Influence of digestive morphology on resource partitioning in Amazonian ungulates
Date Issued
01 January 1991
Access level
open access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
University of Cambridge
Abstract
Resource partitioning of diet and habitat use was studied in the entire Amazonian ungulate community of Northeastern Peru, which comprises the red brocket deer (Mazama americana), grey brocket deer (M. gouazoubira), collared peccary (Tayassu tajacu), white-lipped peccary (T. pecari), and lowland tapir (Tapirus terrestris). Each ungulate species partitioned at least one type of resource from every other species. Digestive morphology had a greater influence on resource partitioning of diet than body size. Neither digestive morphology nor body size were related to segregation of habitats. However, species with similar diets partitioned habitats, whereas species with different diets often used the same type of forest. Increases in habitat breadth of ungulates were positively correlated with increases in dietary breadth. © 1991 Springer-Verlag.
Start page
361
End page
365
Volume
85
Issue
3
OCDE Knowledge area
Ciencias del medio ambiente
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-0026062777
Source
Oecologia
Resource of which it is part
Oecologia
ISSN of the container
00298549
DOI of the container
10.1007/BF00320611
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