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
- References
- Index
References
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
- References
- Index
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- MegaherbivoresThe Influence of Very Large Body Size on Ecology, pp. 331 - 363Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1988