Joint use of habitat by red kangaroos and shorthorn cattle in arid central Australia
dc.contributor.author | Dudzinski, M. L. | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Lowe, W. A. | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Müller, W. J. | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Low, Bobbi S. | en_US |
dc.date.accessioned | 2010-06-01T21:54:27Z | |
dc.date.available | 2010-06-01T21:54:27Z | |
dc.date.issued | 1982-03 | en_US |
dc.identifier.citation | DUDZINSKI, M. L.; LOWE, W. A.; MÜLLER, W. J.; LOW, BOBBI S. (1982). "Joint use of habitat by red kangaroos and shorthorn cattle in arid central Australia." Austral Ecology 7(1): 69-74. <http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/74942> | en_US |
dc.identifier.issn | 1442-9985 | en_US |
dc.identifier.issn | 1442-9993 | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/74942 | |
dc.description.abstract | The distribution of cattle and red kangaroos among the major communities of a 170 km 2 paddock in central Australia was determined from 108 and 82 air surveys respectively over a four and a half year period. Fifty-nine surveys of each species were used in this report. Changes in use of the communities by the two species were analysed in relation to forage conditions using linear regression techniques. The two species showed trends in time of use of the open and wooded communities. Kangaroos used the mulga-perennial community (groved Acacia woodland with a shrub and perennial grass understorey) during good forage conditions and moved to the drought refuge open communities when forage conditions deteriorated. Cattle, on the other hand, used the open communities during good forage conditions and tended to move to the mulga communities and the hills when drought began. Mulga-annual (ungroved Acacia woodland with short grass and forb understorey) was the only major community which showed no clear linear relationship between kangaroo use and forage conditions. This might be a buffer area from which kangaroos come and go as other areas become more attractive as feeding areas. Cattle, however, show some preference for mulga annual during medium forage conditions. There appears to be little spatial interaction by the two species except during drought when kangaroos concentrate on the open communities and some cattle continue to feed in these communities. Community selection seems to be determined mainly by forage conditions, as there is no evidence that one species attracts or repels the other in spatial terms. In the conditions observed, the two species successfully coexisted with some control of numbers of cattle by man. | en_US |
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dc.publisher | Blackwell Publishing Ltd | en_US |
dc.rights | 1982 The Ecological Society of Australia Inc. | en_US |
dc.title | Joint use of habitat by red kangaroos and shorthorn cattle in arid central Australia | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbsecondlevel | Ecology and Evolutionary Biology | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbtoplevel | Science | en_US |
dc.description.peerreviewed | Peer Reviewed | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationum | School of Natural Resources, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA 48104 | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationother | Division of Mathematics and Statistics, CSIRO, PO Box 1965, Canberra City, Australia 2601 | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationother | Division of Land Resources Management, CSIRO, Alice Springs, Australia 5750 | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationother | Division of Mathematics and Statistics, CSIRO, PO Box 1965, Canberra City, Australia 2601 | en_US |
dc.description.bitstreamurl | http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/74942/1/j.1442-9993.1982.tb01301.x.pdf | |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1111/j.1442-9993.1982.tb01301.x | en_US |
dc.identifier.source | Austral Ecology | en_US |
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dc.owningcollname | Interdisciplinary and Peer-Reviewed |
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