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    Diet selection by sheep and goats on Mediterranean heath-woodland range

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    Bartolomé, J.
    Franch, J.
    Plaixats, J.
    Seligman, N. G.
    Issue Date
    1998-07-01
    Keywords
    montane forests
    Erica arborea
    Calluna vulgaris
    Quercus ilex
    heathlands
    mixed grazing
    Festuca
    Spain
    foraging
    feces composition
    selective grazing
    species differences
    forbs
    shrubs
    diets
    sheep
    goats
    rangelands
    grasses
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    Bartolomé, J., Franch, J., Plaixats, J., & Seligman, N. G. (1998). Diet selection by sheep and goats on Mediterranean heath-woodland range. Journal of Range Management, 51(4), 383-391.
    Publisher
    Society for Range Management
    Journal
    Journal of Range Management
    URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10150/644077
    DOI
    10.2307/4003322
    Additional Links
    https://rangelands.org/
    Abstract
    The study determined the species components of the diets of small ruminants grazing mountain ranges of the Montseny Biosphere Reserve (Catalunya, NE Spain). Three mixed flocks of sheep and goats, led by shepherds, were monitored for a year. Animals grazed a mountain rangeland composed of Quercus ilex woodland and Calluna-Erica heathland during the day and were returned to their corrals every night. Diet selection was estimated using fecal analysis. Of the 111 species that were identified, 71 were common to both sheep and goat. Of these, 23 were represented in proportions of more than 1% of the annual diet. Even though goats and sheep grazed together, their diets were significantly different (p < 0.0001), the animal factor accounting for 18% to 60% of the total variation among the main diet components. Variation between seasons was also a major (5% to 56%) highly significant factor, while differences between flocks accounted for a significant, but relatively small part (3 % to 10% ) of the total variation in diet. The outstanding difference was the avoidance of the tree, Quercus ilex, by the sheep while the goats selected it throughout the year. Sheep selected graminoids throughout the year while goats tended to avoid them. For the rest there was substantial overlap in species composition between the diet of sheep and goats, especially when analysed over an entire cycle.
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    en
    ISSN
    0022-409X
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    10.2307/4003322
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