Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of contributors
- Preface
- Introduction
- 1 Large herbivores across biomes
- 2 Living in a seasonal environment
- 3 Linking functional responses and foraging behaviour to population dynamics
- 4 Impacts of large herbivores on plant community structure and dynamics
- 5 Long‐term effects of herbivory on plant diversity and functional types in arid ecosystems
- 6 The influence of large herbivores on tree recruitment and forest dynamics
- 7 Large herbivores: missing partners of western European light‐demanding tree and shrub species?
- 8 Frugivory in large mammalian herbivores
- 9 Large herbivores as sources of disturbance in ecosystems
- 10 The roles of large herbivores in ecosystem nutrient cycles
- 11 Large herbivores in heterogeneous grassland ecosystems
- 12 Modelling of large herbivore–vegetation interactions in a landscape context
- 13 Effects of large herbivores on other fauna
- 14 The future role of large carnivores in terrestrial trophic interactions: the northern temperate view
- 15 Restoring the functions of grazed ecosystems
- 16 Themes and future directions in herbivore‐ecosystem interactions and conservation
- Index
Frontmatter
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 16 November 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of contributors
- Preface
- Introduction
- 1 Large herbivores across biomes
- 2 Living in a seasonal environment
- 3 Linking functional responses and foraging behaviour to population dynamics
- 4 Impacts of large herbivores on plant community structure and dynamics
- 5 Long‐term effects of herbivory on plant diversity and functional types in arid ecosystems
- 6 The influence of large herbivores on tree recruitment and forest dynamics
- 7 Large herbivores: missing partners of western European light‐demanding tree and shrub species?
- 8 Frugivory in large mammalian herbivores
- 9 Large herbivores as sources of disturbance in ecosystems
- 10 The roles of large herbivores in ecosystem nutrient cycles
- 11 Large herbivores in heterogeneous grassland ecosystems
- 12 Modelling of large herbivore–vegetation interactions in a landscape context
- 13 Effects of large herbivores on other fauna
- 14 The future role of large carnivores in terrestrial trophic interactions: the northern temperate view
- 15 Restoring the functions of grazed ecosystems
- 16 Themes and future directions in herbivore‐ecosystem interactions and conservation
- Index
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- Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2006