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Large Herbivore Ecology, Ecosystem Dynamics and Conservation.
Most large herbivores require some type of management within their habitats. Some populations of large herbivores are at the brink of extinction, some are under discussion for reintroduction, whilst others already occur in dense populations causing conflicts with other land use. Large herbivores are...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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West Nyack :
Cambridge University Press,
2006.
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| Colección: | Conservation Biology.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Contributors; Preface; Introduction; Large herbivores across biomes; INTRODUCTION; DEFINITIONS OF BIOGEOGRAPHICAL AND BEHAVIOURAL CATEGORIES; TAXONOMIC DIVERSITY; PALAEONTOLOGY; BODY SIZE, DIVERSITY AND DISTRIBUTION; GROUP SIZES AND FEEDING TYPES; THE DIVERSITY OF MATING SYSTEMS ACROSS CONTINENTS AND BIOMES; THE OCCURRENCE OF SEXUAL DIMORPHISM; VARIATIONS IN DEMOGRAPHIC STRATEGIES; CONCLUSIONS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; REFERENCES; Living in a seasonal environment; INTRODUCTION; EFFECTS OF SEASONALITY ON LARGE HERBIVORE LIFE HISTORY TACTICS.
- ENERGY USE IN ARCTIC/ALPINE LARGE HERBIVORES
- CAPITAL VS. INCOME BREEDER STRATEGIESEFFECTS OF CLIMATIC VARIABILITY ON POPULATION DYNAMICS; Population dynamics of Rangifer and muskoxen: review of data; EFFECTS OF SEASONALITY ON IMPACT OF GRAZING; EFFECTS OF GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE ON LARGE HERBIVORE-PLANT INTERACTIONS; CONCLUSIONS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; REFERENCES; Linking functional responses and foraging behaviour to population dynamics; INTRODUCTION; RECENT MODELS OF FUNCTIONAL RESPONSE; IMPLICATIONS OF NEW MODELS OF FUNCTIONAL RESPONSES FOR FORAGING AND DIET OPTIMIZATION.
- DESCRIBING THE NUMERICAL RESPONSEDIET SELECTION, RESOURCE HETEROGENEITY AND LARGE HERBIVORE POPULATION DYNAMICS; STABILIZING AND DESTABILIZING INFLUENCES ON LARGE HERBIVORE POPULATION DYNAMICS; CONCLUSIONS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; REFERENCES; Impacts of large herbivores on plant community structure and dynamics; INTRODUCTION; HOW DO LARGE HERBIVORES DIRECTLY AFFECT INDIVIDUAL PLANTS?; Seedling establishment; Plant growth; Type of tissue damage; Severity and timing of tissue damage; Defoliation interval; Flowering and seed production; Below-ground processes.
- HOW DO PLANTS AVOID OR RESPOND TO LARGE HERBIVORE IMPACTS?Physical avoidance; Chemical avoidance; Avoidance of herbivory by constitutive chemical defence; Responding to herbivory by induced chemical defence; Tolerance; Compensation; IMPLICATIONS FOR PLANT COMMUNITY STRUCTURE AND DIVERSITY; Inter- and intraspecific competitive interactions; Diversity; Colonization and extinction; Plant species coexistence and diversity; Factors affecting herbivore species selection; Abiotic factors and diversity; Grazing refuges; Genetic diversity; Structural diversity; Spatial heterogeneity.
- Heterogeneity in resource distribution and herbivore distributionScale dependence; Grazing vs. non-grazing impacts on heterogeneity; Do herbivores always increase heterogeneity?; Temporal dynamics; CONCLUSIONS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; REFERENCES; Long-term effects of herbivory on plant diversity and functional types in arid ecosystems; INTRODUCTION; LONG-TERM STUDIES OF EFFECTS OF LARGE MAMMALS ON ARID VEGETATION; OSCILLATIONS OF VEGETATION AND HERBIVORE POPULATIONS; EFFECTS OF HERBIVORY ON RELATIONSHIPS AMONG PLANT FUNCTIONAL TYPES; (1) Bush encroachment.