| Titre : | Hunting bamboo: Foraging patch selection and utilization by giant pandas and implications for conservation |
| Auteurs : | Wei Wei, Auteur ; Yonggang Nie, Auteur ; Zejun Zhang, Auteur ; Yibo Hu, Auteur ; Li Yan, Auteur ; Dunwu Qi, Auteur ; Xinhai Li, Auteur ; Fuwen Wei, Auteur |
| Type de document : | Article |
| Dans : | Biological Conservation (186 JUN 2015) |
| Article en page(s) : | 260-267 |
| Langues: | Anglais |
| Résumé : | Food resources are patchily distributed in the environment and carnivores and herbivores have adopted different foraging strategies to maximize feeding efficiency. One interesting strategy is that of the giant panda, a member of the Carnivora that has evolved into a bamboo specialist. Giant pandas forage discriminately, but it remains unknown how nutritional hierarchical levels and landscape configuration heterogeneity affect foraging patch selection. Here, we used global positioning system collars to track wild giant pandas at high resolution ( |



