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Megaherbivores - The Influence of Very Large Body Size on Ecology (Paperback, New Ed)
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Megaherbivores - The Influence of Very Large Body Size on Ecology (Paperback, New Ed)
Series: Cambridge Studies in Ecology
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The largest land mammals are constrained in their activities by
their large body size, a theme that is emphasized in this account
of their general ecology. The book begins by raising the question
as to why these once abundant and widely distributed
'megaherbivores' - elephants, rhinos, hippos and giraffes - have
all but gone extinct, and ends by considering the implications of
the answer for the conservation of the remaining populations.
Existing megaherbivores are placed in the context of the more
numerous species which occurred worldwide until the end of the last
Ice Age, and knowledge of the ecology of surviving species is used
to analyse the cause of the extinctions. The information and ideas
contained in this book are of crucial importance to all concerned
with halting the rapidly worsening conservation status of remaining
elephant and rhinoceros species, and carries a wider message for
those concerned with the ramifying effects of man on ecosystem
processes. Graduate students and research scientists in ecology,
conservation biology and wildlife management will find this book of
value.
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