{"id":1140,"date":"2017-06-26T11:05:18","date_gmt":"2017-06-26T11:05:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.za-hwange.cnrs.fr\/?page_id=1140"},"modified":"2017-09-05T15:03:09","modified_gmt":"2017-09-05T15:03:09","slug":"experimental-devices","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.za-hwange.cnrs.fr\/?page_id=1140&lang=en","title":{"rendered":"Life-sized experiments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Hwange LTSER offers outstanding opportunities for experimentation on a large scale, in certain parts of the Park and in its periphery as the Zimbabwe Parks and Wildlife Management Authority has always made these possible.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><em>Examples:<\/em><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.za-hwange.cnrs.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/exclos-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-1141 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.za-hwange.cnrs.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/exclos-1-300x259.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"259\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.za-hwange.cnrs.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/exclos-1-300x259.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.za-hwange.cnrs.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/exclos-1.jpg 548w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>\u2666 Exclosures to measure the impact of large\u00a0 herbivores on the vegetation.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u2666 Fertilization (nitrogen, phosphorus and nitrogen + phosphorus) to manipulate the nutrient cycle and assess the response of grasses and woody plants (growth, reproduction, interspecies competition) to nutrient constraints.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u2666 Standardized N, P, K fertilization to create enriched foraging zones with the objective of testing the foraging-vigilance trade-off associated with changes in food patch quality and predation risk.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u2666 Manipulation of risk perception (by sound and olfactory stimuli) to study the role of predators in the behaviour of herbivores (e.g. vigilance, social aggregation, temporal niche change).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u2666 Participatory experiments in communal areas to evaluate the effect of agricultural practices and guarding on the risks of crop damage, and the implementation of passive methods of protection (e.g. use of hive barriers to keep elephants away from crops).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.za-hwange.cnrs.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/Image_ruches-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1142\" src=\"http:\/\/www.za-hwange.cnrs.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/Image_ruches-1-1024x767.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"479\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.za-hwange.cnrs.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/Image_ruches-1-1024x767.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.za-hwange.cnrs.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/Image_ruches-1-300x225.png 300w, https:\/\/www.za-hwange.cnrs.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/Image_ruches-1-768x576.png 768w, https:\/\/www.za-hwange.cnrs.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/Image_ruches-1.png 1501w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Hwange LTSER offers outstanding opportunities for experimentation on a large scale, in certain parts of the Park and in its periphery as the Zimbabwe Parks and Wildlife Management Authority has always made these possible. Examples: \u2666 Exclosures to measure &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.za-hwange.cnrs.fr\/?page_id=1140&#038;lang=en\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1140","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.za-hwange.cnrs.fr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.za-hwange.cnrs.fr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.za-hwange.cnrs.fr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.za-hwange.cnrs.fr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.za-hwange.cnrs.fr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1140"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.za-hwange.cnrs.fr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1306,"href":"https:\/\/www.za-hwange.cnrs.fr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1140\/revisions\/1306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.za-hwange.cnrs.fr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}