Response of endemic afroalpine rodents to the removal of livestock grazing pressure

The Bale Mountains of Ethiopia represent the world’s largest continuous extent of afroalpine habitat. With a peak combined density of over 8000 individuals/km2, the endemic giant mole rat Tachyoryctes macrocephalus, Blick's grass rat Arvicanthis blicki and the brush-furred mouse Lophuromys mela...

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Main Author: Flavie VIAL, David W. MACDONALD, Daniel T. HAYDON
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Oxford University Press 2011-12-01
Series:Current Zoology
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Online Access:http://www.currentzoology.org/paperdetail.asp?id=11952