Megaherbivores: The Influence of Very Large Body Size on Ecology

作者：Norman Owen‐Smith · 年份：1988 · 被引用次数：884 · 研究领域：Evolution and Paleontology Studies、Wildlife Ecology and Conservation、Rabbits: Nutrition, Reproduction, Health

Prologue 1. Morphology, evolutionary history and recent distribution 2. Food and other habitat resources 3. Space-time patterns of habitat use 4. Body size and nutritional physiology 5. Body size and feeding ecology 6. Social organisation and behaviour 7. Life history 8. Body size and sociobiology 9. Body size and reproductive patterns 10. Demography 11. Community interactions 12. Body size and population regulation 13. Body size and ecosystem processes 14. Late Pleistocene extinctions 15. Conservation Epilogue: the megaherbivore syndrome Appendixes References Index.