Experimental Analysis of Ecosystem Mechanisms Engendering Ungulate Spatial Concentrations

有蹄类动物空间集中的生态系统机制的实验分析本研究将利用营养循环的实验操作，以确定是否有可能吸引大型，野生，放牧哺乳动物到新的景观方面以前轻度放牧。 将向土壤中添加对生殖动物、怀孕和哺乳期雌性动物以及正在生长的幼仔的充足营养特别重要的矿物质，并将监测这些矿物质通过植物和动物的循环。 这项研究既适用于支持大群自由放养的食草哺乳动物的生态系统的基本组织，也适用于管理受到非法猎人严重偷猎的哺乳动物，因为它测试了是否有可能在远离偷猎者的地方创造动物青睐的栖息地。

ABSTRACT9903845McNaughtonExperimental analysis of ecosystem mechanisms engendering ungulate spatial concentrationsThis research will utilize experimental manipulations of nutrient cycling to determine whether it is possible to attract large, wild, grazing mammals to new landscape facets previously lightly grazed. Minerals particularly important to the adequate nutrition of reproductive animals, pregnant and lactating females and growing young, will be added to the soil and their cycling, through plants and animals, will be monitored. The research has applications to both the fundamental organization of ecosystems supporting large herds of free-ranging mammalian herbivores and to management of mammals subject to severe poaching by illegal hunters, since it tests whether it is possible to create animal-favored habitats remote from poacher access.