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Megaherbivores
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R. Norman Owen-Smith
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2009
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Cambridge University Press
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9780511565441
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2009
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10.1017/CBO9780511565441
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Book chapters
pp. xiii
Preface
pp. 1
Prologue
pp. 6
Morphology, evolutionary history and recent distribution
pp. 30
Food and other habitat resources
pp. 53
Space–time patterns of habitat use
pp. 69
Body size and nutritional physiology
pp. 82
Body size and feeding ecology
pp. 101
Social organization and behavior
pp. 133
Life history
pp. 160
Body size and sociobiology
pp. 181
Body size and reproductive patterns
pp. 200
Demography
pp. 226
Community interactions
pp. 246
Body size and population regulation
pp. 265
Body size and ecosystem processes
pp. 280
Late Pleistocene extinctions
pp. 297
Conservation
pp. 309
Epilogue: the megaherbivore syndrome
pp. 317
Appendix I
pp. 325
Appendix II
pp. 331
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