Animal-based techniques for grazing ecology research

摘要: Grazing ecologists have available to them a suite of research techniques measure aspects plant/animal interactions. This review focuses on animal-based and describes the methods tackle questions concerned with intake, foraging behaviour, diet composition location free-ranging large mammalian herbivores. The majority been developed tested for agricultural livestock proved be highly reliable accurate. However, they rely being able handle animal regularly, either in order administer measurement protocol or gather samples data from animal. Current interest grazing ecology domestic wild extensive vegetation systems requires less hands-on approach gathering. Recent developments microelectronics (e.g. datalogging radiotelemetry) promise provide researchers more accurate strategy animals.