Large Herbivore Ecology, Ecosystem Dynamics and Conservation

ISBN: 9780521536875 出版年：2006 页码：524 Danell et al Cambridge University Press

Preface Introduction 1. Large herbivores across biomes Herve Fritz and Anne Loison 2. Living in a seasonal environment Jon Moen, Reidar Andersen and Andrew W. Illius 3. Linking functional responses and foraging behaviour to population dynamics Andrew W. Illius 4. Impacts of large herbivores on plant community structure and dynamics Alison J. Hester, Margareta Bergman, Glenn R. Iason and Jon Moen 5. Long-term effects of herbivory on plant diversity and functional types in arid ecosystems David Ward 6. The influence of large herbivores on tree recruitment and forest dynamics Robin Gill 7. Large herbivores: missing partners of western-European light-demanding tree and shrub species? Frans W. M. Vera, Elisabeth S. Bakker and Han Olff 8. Frugivory in large mammalian herbivores Richard Bodmer and David Ward 9. Large herbivores as sources of disturbance in ecosystems N. Thompson Hobbs 10. The roles of large herbivores in ecosystem nutrient cycles John P. Pastor, Yosef Cohen and N. Thompson Hobbs 11. Large herbivores in heterogeneous grassland ecosystems Douglas A. Frank 12. Modelling of large herbivore - vegetation interactions in a landscape context Peter J. Weisberg, Michael B. Coughenour and Harald Bugmann 13. Effects of large herbivores on other fauna Otso Suominen and Kjell Danell 14. The future role of large carnivores on terrestrial trophic interactions: the northern temperate view Reidar Andersen, John D. C. Linnell and Erling J. Solberg 15. Restoring the functions of grazed ecosystems Ian J. Gordon 16. Themes and future directions in herbivore-ecosystem interactions and conservation John Pastor, Kjell Danell, Roger Bergstrom and Patrick Duncan References Index.