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| Title: | The ecology of browsing and grazing / |
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| Database Name: | WorldCat |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
I J Gordon; H H T Prins |
| ISBN: | 9783540724216 (acid-free paper); 3540724214 (acid-free paper) |
| ISSN: | 0070-8356 ; |
| Notes: | Also issued as an electronic book. Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| Description: | xv, 328 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | Introduction : grazers and browsers in a changing world / Herbert H.T. Prins and Iain J. Gordon -- An evolutionary history of browsing and grazing ungulates / Christine Janis -- The morphophysiological adaptations of browsing and grazing mammals / Marcus Clauss, Thomas Kaiser, and Jürgen Hummel -- Nutritional ecology of grazing and browsing ruminants / Alan J. Duncan and Dennis P. Poppi -- The comparative feeding behaviour of large browsing and grazing herbivores / Kate R. Searle and Lisa A. Shipley -- The comparative population dynamics of browsing and grazing ungulates / Norman Owen-Smith -- Species diversity of browsing and grazing ungulates : consequences for the structure and abundance of secondary production / Herbert H.T. Prins and Hervé Fritz -- Impacts of grazing and browsing by large herbivores on soils and soil biological properties / Kathryn A. Harrison and Richard D. Bardgett -- Plant traits, browsing and grazing herbivores, and vegetation dynamics / Christina Skarpe and Alison Hester -- The impact of browsing and grazing herbivores on biodiversity / Spike E. van Wieren and Jan P. Bakker -- Managing large herbivores in theory and practice : is the game the same for browsing and grazing species? / Jean-Michel Gaillard ... [et al.] -- Grazers and browsers in a changing world : conclusions / Iain J. Gordon and Herbert H.T. Prins. |
| Other Titles: | Browsing and grazing |
| Responsibility: | I.J. Gordon, H.H.T. Prins, editors. |
| Year: | c2008. |
| Publisher: | Berlin : Springer, |
| Standard Numbers: | LCCN: 2007931594; National Library: 983898111 |
| Class Descriptors: | LC Class No.: SF85; LC Class No.: QL756.56; Dewey No.: 591.5/4 |
| Series: | Ecological studies,; Number: v. 195; ISSN: 0070-8356 ;; Variation: Ecological studies ; v. 195. |
| OCLC No.: | 171111266 |
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