Title
Ungulate frugivores and the browser-grazer continuum
Date Issued
01 January 1990
Access level
open access
Resource Type
journal article
Abstract
To understand the evolution of ungulate feeding it is necessary to have a classification that realistically incorporates the full range of ungulate feeding strategies. Such a classification can be described as a linear continuum that ranges from fruit feeders through to browsers and then grazers. Purely frugivorous ungulates are restricted to tropical forests and have consistently small body sizes. Pure grazers are absent from tropical forests and are found most commonly in grassland and savannas. Browsing is the most common ungulate feeding strategy and is found in ungulates with a wide range of body sizes and is common in all habitat types. -from Author
Start page
319
End page
325
Volume
57
Issue
3
OCDE Knowledge area
Ciencias de la Tierra, Ciencias ambientales
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-0025257774
Source
Oikos
Resource of which it is part
Oikos
ISSN of the container
00301299
DOI of the container
10.2307/3565960
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