Anthropogenically driven spatial niche partitioning in a large herbivore assemblage.

ABSTRACT: Understanding how human activity can influence species distributions and spatial niche partitioning between sympatric species is a key area of contemporary ecology. Extirpations of large mammalian populations, the result of a 15-year civil war, within the Gorongosa National Park in Mozambique, have been followed by an extended period of restoration. The species-specific recovery of these populations has provided an ideal system to identify how niche partitioning between coexisting species is altered as a consequence of extreme disturbance events. Here, we aimed to understand how distribution patterns of grazing herbivores, as well as spatial niche overlap between them, changed between the pre- and post-war scenarios. We focused on the following four grazer species: buffalo (Syncerus caffer

SUBMITTER: Arumoogum N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10038942 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature