Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- 1 Prologue
- 2 Morphology, evolutionary history and recent distribution
- 3 Food and other habitat resources
- 4 Space–time patterns of habitat use
- 5 Body size and nutritional physiology
- 6 Body size and feeding ecology
- 7 Social organization and behavior
- 8 Life history
- 9 Body size and sociobiology
- 10 Body size and reproductive patterns
- 11 Demography
- 12 Community interactions
- 13 Body size and population regulation
- 14 Body size and ecosystem processes
- 15 Late Pleistocene extinctions
- 16 Conservation
- 17 Epilogue: the megaherbivore syndrome
- Appendixes
- Appendix I
- Appendix II
- References
- Index
Appendix I
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 June 2011
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- 1 Prologue
- 2 Morphology, evolutionary history and recent distribution
- 3 Food and other habitat resources
- 4 Space–time patterns of habitat use
- 5 Body size and nutritional physiology
- 6 Body size and feeding ecology
- 7 Social organization and behavior
- 8 Life history
- 9 Body size and sociobiology
- 10 Body size and reproductive patterns
- 11 Demography
- 12 Community interactions
- 13 Body size and population regulation
- 14 Body size and ecosystem processes
- 15 Late Pleistocene extinctions
- 16 Conservation
- 17 Epilogue: the megaherbivore syndrome
- Appendixes
- Appendix I
- Appendix II
- References
- Index
Summary
Scientific names, abbreviations and body mass data for mammal species referred to in the text, tables and figures
Mean and maximum live mass reported for sexually mature animals of each sex are given (where sufficient data are available). A range of values is indicated where body mass varies significantly between different populations of the species. Figures in brackets represent guestimates. The asymptotic body mass for each sex is taken to be the average of the mean and maximum masses. The population mean mass per individual for all age classes is taken to be three-quarters of the mean adult female mass.
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- MegaherbivoresThe Influence of Very Large Body Size on Ecology, pp. 317 - 324Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1988