Items for "animal-plant interaction"

Herbivory by tuco-tucos (Ctenomys mendocinus) on shrubs in the upper limit of the Monte desert (Argentina)

Ctenomys (tuco-tuco) is a small fossorial herbivorous rodent of the Monte desert, and is probably the most abundant and widely distributed rodent in these arid lands...

Keywords: Monte desert, mammals, animal-plant interaction, herbivory