Withered on the stem: is bamboo a seasonally limiting resource for giant pandas?
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Date Issued
2017Common Name
0944-1344, 1614-7499Journal
Environmental Science and Pollution ResearchVolume
24Issue
11Start page
10537End page
10546
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https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11356-017-8746-6Abstract
In response to seasonal variation in quality and quantity of available plant biomass, herbivorous foragers may alternate among different plant resources to meet nutritional requirements. Giant pandas (Ailuropoda melanoleuca) are reliant almost exclusively on bamboo which appears omnipresent in most occupied habitat, but subtle temporal variation in bamboo quality may still govern foraging strategies, with population-level effects....Type
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© Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2017ae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.1007/s11356-017-8746-6
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