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The effect of heater fragmentation and mixed grazing on the diet of sheep Ovis aries and red deer Cervus elaphus

P. Cuartas, Iain J. Gordon, Alison J. Hester, F. Javier Pérez‐Barbería, Ian A. R. Hulbert

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The effects of vegetation fragmentation and mixed grazing (ie mono- or multi-species animal group) on the diet composition of sheep and red deer grazing mosaics of grassland and heather moorland was studied, using faecal cuticle analysis, in two experimental sites in Scotland during the summer of 1992 and 1993.

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The effects of vegetation fragmentation and mixed grazing (ie mono- or multi-species animal group) on the diet composition of sheep and red deer grazing mosaics of grassland and heather moorland was studied, using faecal cuticle analysis, in two experimental sites in Scotland during the summer of 1992 and 1993.

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The effects of vegetation fragmentation and mixed grazing (ie mono- or multi-species animal group) on the diet composition of sheep and red deer grazing mosaics of grassland and heather moorland was studied, using faecal cuticle analysis, in two experimental sites in Scotland during the summer of 1992 and 1993.

Key concepts: Moorland, Grazing, Cervus elaphus, Ovis, Ovis canadensis, Grassland, Biology, Fragmentation (computing)

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