Adaptive Herbivore Ecology

by Norman Owen-Smith and R. Norman Owen-Smith

The adaptation of herbivore behavior to seasonal and locational variations in vegetation quantity and quality is inadequately modelled by conventional methods. Norman Owen-Smith innovatively links the principles of adaptive behavior to their consequences for population dynamics and community ecology, through the application of a metaphysiological modeling approach. The main focus is on large mammalian herbivores occupying seasonally variable environments...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521810612
• ISBN13: 9780521810616
• Release Date: July 2002
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 392 Pages
• Weight: 1.72 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.2"