Sheremet’ev I.S., Pimenova E.A., Sheremet’eva I.N., Verkholat V.P.
В издании Wildlife: Destruction, Conservation and Biodiversity
Год: 2009 Страницы: 333-343
The paper deals with the relationship between species diversity of forage plants and structure of ruminant guilds at different stages of the disturbed communities. A general approach based on comparison of two systems of ruminant ranking, by their forage species richness and by abundance of ruminant species in a community. The number of plant species was considered as several variables regarding to forage value in diet of ruminants. It was found that species structure of the vegetation is at least a one of the conditions which determines the structure of the ruminant guilds. Population density of ruminants whose forage plant sets are more diverse is larger. The total number of forage plant species has a decisive significance, but not number of the most significant species. Anthropogenic disturbance of vegetation and change of plant species richness support change in structure of ruminant guilds.
