The adaptation of herbivore behaviour to seasonal and locational
variations in vegetation quantity and quality is inadequately
modelled by conventional methods. Norman Owen-Smith innovatively
links the principles of adaptive behaviour to their consequences
for population dynamics and community ecology, through the
application of a metaphysiological modelling approach. The main
focus is on large mammalian herbivores occupying seasonally
variable environments such as those characterised by African
savannahs, but applications to temperate zone ungulates are also
included. Issues of habitat suitability, species coexistence, and
population stability or instability are similarly investigated. The
modelling approach accommodates various sources of environmental
variability, in space and time, in a simple conceptual way and has
the potential to be applied to other consumer-resource systems.
This text highlights the crucial importance of adaptive consumer
responses to environmental variability and is aimed particularly at
academic researchers and graduate students in the field of ecology.
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