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Plant traits, browsing and grazing herbivores, and vegetation dynamics

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    Abstract

    Large browsing and grazing herbivores can have a profound influence on the physiognomy, composition, and function of vegetation, from the landscape scale to a single plant (Hobbs 1996; Augustine and McNaughton 1998). By selective foraging among populations of plant modules and genets and along resource gradients, herbivores exert differential pressures on plant populations at different spatial and temporal scales (Kielland and Bryant 1998; Allison 1990; Price 1991; Jia et al. 1995; Danell et al. 2003). In addition, herbivore behavioural costs (predation, shelter seeking, etc.) can strongly influence locational, and therefore foraging, choice (Schmitz 2003; Letourneau and Dyer 2004).
    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationThe Ecology of Browsing and Grazing
    EditorsIain J. Gordon, Herbert H. T. Prins
    Place of PublicationBerlin, Heidelberg
    PublisherSpringer Berlin Heidelberg
    Pages217-261
    Number of pages45
    Volume195
    ISBN (Print)978-3-540-72422-3
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2008

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