Impacts of large herbivores on terrestrial ecosystems

RM Pringle, JO Abraham, TM Anderson, TC Coverdale… - Current Biology, 2023 - cell.com
Large herbivores play unique ecological roles and are … biodiversity, research on large
herbivores and their ecological … the ecosystem impacts of large herbivores globally, identify key …

[PDF][PDF] Frugivory in large mammalian herbivores

R Bodmer, D Ward - CONSERVATION BIOLOGY SERIES …, 2006 - researchgate.net
… East support large numbers of large mammalian herbivores and frugivores. There has been
a considerable amount of coevolution between Acacia trees and these mammals (see eg …

Effects of plant spinescence on large mammalian herbivores

SM Cooper, N Owen-Smith - Oecologia, 1986 - Springer
… in deterring those mammalian herbivores that are counter-… to herbivore attack, and thus at
a selective disadvantage. … the feeding behaviour of large mammalian herbivores, in relation to …

A continent-wide assessment of the form and intensity of large mammal herbivory in Africa

GP Hempson, S Archibald, WJ Bond - Science, 2015 - science.org
… of large mammal herbivores in the Earth system. To address this, we reconstructed the form
and intensity of herbivory … -level biomass for 92 large mammal herbivores using census data, …

Climatic variation modulates the indirect effects of large herbivores on small‐mammal habitat use

RA Long, A Wambua, JR Goheen… - Journal of Animal …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Large mammalian herbivores ( LMH ) strongly shape the composition and architecture of plant
communities. A growing literature shows that negative direct effects of LMH on vegetation …

Large mammalian clawed herbivores: a comparative study

MC Coombs - Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, 1983 - JSTOR
… Although an occasional large mammal, such as Ursus americanus, may climb trees, most
of the large clawed herbivores discussed in this paper are too large for scansorial habits. …

Foraging costs of vigilance in large mammalian herbivores

D Fortin, MS Boyce, EH Merrill, JM Fryxell - Oikos, 2004 - Wiley Online Library
… by herbivores. However, the foraging costs of vigilance have rarely been investigated for
mammalian herbivores. In … of the foraging processes of herbivores. Unlike many other foragers, …

The ecology of plants, large mammalian herbivores, and drought in Yellowstone National Park

DA Frank, SJ McNaughton - Ecology, 1992 - Wiley Online Library
… to examine the effect of abundant native large herbivores on ecosystem function of a … large
herbivore consumption (C), and dung deposition (D), an index of nutrient flow from herbivores

Multiple dimensions of dietary diversity in large mammalian herbivores

TR Kartzinel, RM Pringle - Journal of Animal Ecology, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
… Phylogeny of the 25 large mammalian herbivores in our study. Grey circles represent … ,
we used mammalian mitochondrial DNA markers to verify the herbivore species based on …

Human‐induced changes in large herbivorous mammal density: the consequences for decomposers

DA Wardle, RD Bardgett - Frontiers in Ecology and the …, 2004 - Wiley Online Library
Herbivory by large mammals is an important ecological driver in many ecosystems, notably
in grasslands and tundra, as well as in forests with high densities of palatable understory …