Megaherbivores: The Influence of Very Large Body Size on Ecology

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Summary

This book is an account of the general ecology of the largest land mammals, emphasizing the constraints imposed by a very large body size.

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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.