Claim · model-written summary
Game showed a wider choice of plant species than cattle.
- Taxon
- plant speciese4
- Treatment
- gamee4
- Outcome
- choice of plant speciese4
- Direction
- widere4
- Comparator
- cattlee4
Not reportedMaterialGeneCompoundOrgan / stageInteractorInteractor roleSecond interactorSecond interactor roleSettingValueQualifier
Verbatim
e4“The game showed a wider choice of plant species but both game and cattle preferred the same herbaceous (grass) plants”
Title
Comparisons of Vegetation Use and Herbivore Biomass on a Rhodesian Game and Cattle Ranch
R. D. Taylor; B. H. Walker Journal of Applied Ecology 1978. doi:10.2307/2402611
Other claims from this paper (11)
- Intervention effect Herbaceous vegetation utilization was higher on the game section (43%) than on the cattle section (28%).
- Observation Ten large herbivore species were present on the game section.
- Intervention effect Total animal biomass was approximately the same on the game section as on the cattle section.
- Observation Twelve grass species were utilized by cattle at more than 10%.
- Observation Twenty grass species were utilized by game at more than 10%.
- Intervention effect Up to 20% of available browse was utilized by game, against 7-8% on the cattle section.
- Association Grazing by cattle was less area-specific than grazing by game animals.
- Observation Game and cattle both preferred the same herbaceous (grass) plants.
- Association Cover abundance, litter cover and grass height were greater on the cattle section.
- Association Soil capping, moribund grass and soil erosion were lower on the game section.
- Association Shrub density was higher on the cattle section.