Habitat use at fine spatial scale: how does patch clustering criteria explain the use of meadows by red deer ?
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Resumo: | Large mammalian herbivores are keystone species in different ecosystems. To mediate the effects of large mammalian herbivores on ecosystems, it is crucial to understand their habitat selection pattern. At finer scales, herbivore patch selection depends strongly on plant community traits and therefore its understanding is constrained by patch definition criteria. Our aim was to assess which criteria for patch definition best explained use of meadows by wild, free-ranging, red deer (Cervus elaphus) in a study area in Northeast Portugal. We used two clustering criteria types based on floristic composition and gross forage classes, respectively. For the floristic criteria, phytosociological approach was used to classify plant communities, and its objectivity evaluated with a mathematical clustering of the floristic relevés. Cover of dominant plant species was tested as a proxy for the phytosociological method. For the gross forage classes, the graminoids/forbs ratio and the percentage cover of legumes were used. For assessing deer relative use of meadows we used faecal accumulation rates. Patches clustered according to floristic classification better explained selection of patches by deer. Plant community classifications based on phytosociology, or proxies of this, used for characterizing meadow patches resulted useful to understand herbivore selection pattern at fine scales and thus potentially suitable to assist wildlife management decisions |
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Habitat use at fine spatial scale: how does patch clustering criteria explain the use of meadows by red deer ?patch definitionCervus elaphusfaecal accumulation rateforaging habitat usehay meadowsLarge mammalian herbivores are keystone species in different ecosystems. To mediate the effects of large mammalian herbivores on ecosystems, it is crucial to understand their habitat selection pattern. At finer scales, herbivore patch selection depends strongly on plant community traits and therefore its understanding is constrained by patch definition criteria. Our aim was to assess which criteria for patch definition best explained use of meadows by wild, free-ranging, red deer (Cervus elaphus) in a study area in Northeast Portugal. We used two clustering criteria types based on floristic composition and gross forage classes, respectively. For the floristic criteria, phytosociological approach was used to classify plant communities, and its objectivity evaluated with a mathematical clustering of the floristic relevés. Cover of dominant plant species was tested as a proxy for the phytosociological method. For the gross forage classes, the graminoids/forbs ratio and the percentage cover of legumes were used. For assessing deer relative use of meadows we used faecal accumulation rates. Patches clustered according to floristic classification better explained selection of patches by deer. Plant community classifications based on phytosociology, or proxies of this, used for characterizing meadow patches resulted useful to understand herbivore selection pattern at fine scales and thus potentially suitable to assist wildlife management decisionsSpringerRepositório da Universidade de LisboaBellu, AnnalisaBugalho, Miguel N.Monteiro-Henriques, TiagoCosta, José CarlosRego, Francisco Castro2017-04-28T09:20:50Z20122012-01-01T00:00:00Zinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/articleapplication/pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/10400.5/13545eng" European Journal of Wildlife Research". 58 (2012) p. 645-65410.1007/s10344-012-8info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessreponame:Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)instname:Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãoinstacron:RCAAP2023-03-06T14:43:39Zoai:www.repository.utl.pt:10400.5/13545Portal AgregadorONGhttps://www.rcaap.pt/oai/openaireopendoar:71602024-03-19T16:59:31.488070Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos) - Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãofalse |
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Habitat use at fine spatial scale: how does patch clustering criteria explain the use of meadows by red deer ? |
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Habitat use at fine spatial scale: how does patch clustering criteria explain the use of meadows by red deer ? |
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Habitat use at fine spatial scale: how does patch clustering criteria explain the use of meadows by red deer ? Bellu, Annalisa patch definition Cervus elaphus faecal accumulation rate foraging habitat use hay meadows |
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Habitat use at fine spatial scale: how does patch clustering criteria explain the use of meadows by red deer ? |
title_full |
Habitat use at fine spatial scale: how does patch clustering criteria explain the use of meadows by red deer ? |
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Habitat use at fine spatial scale: how does patch clustering criteria explain the use of meadows by red deer ? |
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Habitat use at fine spatial scale: how does patch clustering criteria explain the use of meadows by red deer ? |
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Habitat use at fine spatial scale: how does patch clustering criteria explain the use of meadows by red deer ? |
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Bellu, Annalisa |
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Bellu, Annalisa Bugalho, Miguel N. Monteiro-Henriques, Tiago Costa, José Carlos Rego, Francisco Castro |
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Bugalho, Miguel N. Monteiro-Henriques, Tiago Costa, José Carlos Rego, Francisco Castro |
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Repositório da Universidade de Lisboa |
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Bellu, Annalisa Bugalho, Miguel N. Monteiro-Henriques, Tiago Costa, José Carlos Rego, Francisco Castro |
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patch definition Cervus elaphus faecal accumulation rate foraging habitat use hay meadows |
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patch definition Cervus elaphus faecal accumulation rate foraging habitat use hay meadows |
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Large mammalian herbivores are keystone species in different ecosystems. To mediate the effects of large mammalian herbivores on ecosystems, it is crucial to understand their habitat selection pattern. At finer scales, herbivore patch selection depends strongly on plant community traits and therefore its understanding is constrained by patch definition criteria. Our aim was to assess which criteria for patch definition best explained use of meadows by wild, free-ranging, red deer (Cervus elaphus) in a study area in Northeast Portugal. We used two clustering criteria types based on floristic composition and gross forage classes, respectively. For the floristic criteria, phytosociological approach was used to classify plant communities, and its objectivity evaluated with a mathematical clustering of the floristic relevés. Cover of dominant plant species was tested as a proxy for the phytosociological method. For the gross forage classes, the graminoids/forbs ratio and the percentage cover of legumes were used. For assessing deer relative use of meadows we used faecal accumulation rates. Patches clustered according to floristic classification better explained selection of patches by deer. Plant community classifications based on phytosociology, or proxies of this, used for characterizing meadow patches resulted useful to understand herbivore selection pattern at fine scales and thus potentially suitable to assist wildlife management decisions |
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2012 |
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" European Journal of Wildlife Research". 58 (2012) p. 645-654 10.1007/s10344-012-8 |
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