Talk:Dung midden

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References

I've include 3 references for the same thing as these articles are relavent and may be used by others for expanding this stub. Mehmet Karatay 15:14, 15 June 2007 (UTC)

Bibliography

The following resources are all relevant to our project because they will allow us to expand the stub and write a section about how dung midden provides information about historical climate. The first article cited talks about the 13C/12C ratios in hyrax dung which tell us about the different plants that animals consumed indicating the changes in vegetation. The second article cited discusses more than just the carbon content of the dung and also explores the pollen content of the dung to see if hyrax dung is a good indicator of vegetation change. The third article cited shows how hyrax dung could be useful for determining environmental conditions in arid areas such as Namibia. The fourth article cited talks about the short term climate information that they have connected to the pollen content of hyrax dung such as meteorological changes which were recorded at a nearby weather station.

Scott, L., and J.C. Vogel. "Evidence for environmental conditions during the last 20000 years in Southern Africa from 13C in fossil hyrax dung." Global and Planetary Change 26.1-3 (2000): 207-15. Web.

Carrión, Jose S., Louis Scott, and John C. Vogel. "Twentieth century changes in montane vegetation in the eastern Free State, South Africa, derived from palynology of hyrax dung middens." Journal of Quaternary Science 14.1 (1999): 1-16. Web.

Gil-Romera, Graciela, Louis Scott, Eugene Marais, and George A. Brook. "Middle- to Late-Holocene Moisture Changes in the Desert of Northwest Namibia Derived from Fossil Hyrax Dung Pollen." The Holocene 16.8 (2006): 1073-084. Web.

Scott, L., and J.C. Vogel. "Short-term Changes of Climate and Vegetation Revealed by Pollen Analysis of Hyrax Dung in South Africa." Review of Paleobotany and Palynology 74.3-4 (1992): 283-91. Web.

The rest of our articles relate dung midden as a behavior to possible reasons for its selection and maintenance in nature. The first paper (Ezenwa) speculates on the possibility that dung middens may offer protection against parasites in the selective foraging habits of wild ungulates. The second and third articles (Marneweck, Brashares) investigate the role that dung may play in olfactory communication between large mammals in marking territories and communities. The fourth paper (Attum) explores the implications this non-random dung midden formation behavior in Gazelles has for conservation efforts against poachers that rely on middens to track populations. The Wronski paper also looks into the role of midden in conservation efforts, but this time from the perspective of tracking the health of reintroduced populations. Finally the last paper (Freymann) explores the relationship of decomposers (termites in this case) with species that have dung midden producing behavior, taking a more ecological perspective on the relationship of dung middens with local ecology.

Ezenwa, Vanessa O. "Selective Defecation and Selective Foraging: Antiparasite Behavior in Wild Ungulates?" Ethology 110.11 (2004): 851-62. Web. Marneweck, Courtney, Andreas Jürgens, and Adrian M. Shrader. "Dung odours signal sex, age, territorial and oestrous state in white rhinos." Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 284.1846 (2017): 20162376. Web.

Brashares, Justin S., and Peter Arcese. "Scent Marking in a Territorial African Antelope: II. The Economics of Marking with Faeces." Animal Behaviour 57.1 (1999): 11-17. ScienceDirect. Web.

Attum, O., P. Eason, and S. Wakefield. "Conservation Implications of Midden Selection and use in an Endangered Gazelle (Gazella gazella)." Journal of Zoology268.3 (2006): 255-60. Web.

Wronski, T., and M. Plath. "Characterization of the spatial distribution of latrines in reintroduced mountain gazelles: do latrines demarcate female group home ranges?" Journal of Zoology 280.1 (2010): 92-101. Web.

Freymann, B. P., Buitenwerf, R., Desouza, O., & Olff, H.. “The importance of termites (isoptera) for the recycling of herbivore dung in tropical ecosystems: A review.” European Journal of Entomology, 105(2) (2008): 165-171. Web.

Lng8 (talk) 05:28, 17 February 2017 (UTC)

Is this location for Dung Midden presence limited to the Namibian desert? This discussion is fairly interesting, however, further information regarding locational/geographical/environmental significance of the Namibian desert and why(or why not) might offer an interesting perspective — Preceding unsigned comment added by Oasalehm (talk • contribs) 10:47, 31 March 2017 (UTC)

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