Diets and resource sharing among livestock on the Saiq Plateau, Jebel Akhdar Mountains, Oman

Laila Said Al Harthi; Michael D. Robinson; Osman Mahgoub

Diets and resource sharing among livestock on the Saiq Plateau, Jebel Akhdar Mountains, Oman

Laila Said Al Harthi, Michael D. Robinson^*, Osman Mahgoub

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Abstract

A standard method of fecal plant cuticle analysis was used to determine the diets of goats, sheep and feral donkeys on the Saiq Plateau of Oman during a year of below average rainfall. Feces were collected monthly from 8 localities. Twenty-three thousand four hundred digital cuticle images of the feces and the plant reference collection were stored in a Microsoft Access

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	113-120
Number of pages	8
Journal	International Journal of Ecology and Environmental Sciences
Volume	34
Issue number	2
Publication status	Published - Jun 2008

Keywords

Goat
Middle East mountain ecology
Oman animal husbandry
Sheep and donkey grazing

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
Ecology
General Environmental Science

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