… herbivory allows animals to attain a large body size, which has many selective advantages,
amongst which is a low relative metabolic rate. Herbivory may allow larger body sizes … size …

… 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 …

… small mammalian herbivores, hence its study is important to understanding of their ecology
and biology. Leporids are the largest … medium-sized generalist mammalian herbivores, and …

… large herbivores: Bourlie`re (1975) described the bimodal distribution of mammal body weights
and defined large mammals … Species richness in mammalian herbivores: patterns in the …

… 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 …

… mass and mean faecal particle size in the mammalian herbivores (one average value per …
herbivore groups; in other words, these data could suggest that large mammalian herbivore …

… our hypotheses to the scaling of the largest bite sizes allowed by mouth morphology (Smax,
g). Clutton-Brock and Harvey (1983) and Owen-Smith (1985) hypothesized that, when it is …

… 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 …

… by mammalian herbivores, taking a bite, influences plants and herbivores over larger scales.
… size influences short-term intake rate of herbivores within plant patches. On the other hand, …

… of hindgut fermenters allows adaptations for relative passage acceleration, which explains
why very large extinct mammalian herbivores are thought to have been hindgut fermenters. …