Megaherbivores (Greek μέγας megas "large" and Latin herbivora "herbivore") are large herbivores that can exceed 1,000 kg (2,200 lb) in weight. The earliest...
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Wood-pasture hypothesis (redirect from Megaherbivore theory)
wood-pasture hypothesis (also known as the Vera hypothesis and the megaherbivore theory) is a scientific hypothesis positing that open and semi-open...
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semi-evergreen forests across the range. The species is classified as a megaherbivore and consume up to 150 kg (330 lb) of plant matter per day. They consume...
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This is a list of all nine extant species of megaherbivores, with a brief description for each. Elephants, rhinoceroses, hippopotamuses, and giraffes are...
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produces a large hard edible fruit which is accessible only to the megaherbivores in the wild like elephants. A study in the Buxa Tiger Reserve by ecologists...
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Turvey, Samuel T. (July 2021). "Simultaneous extinction of Madagascar's megaherbivores correlates with late Holocene human-caused landscape transformation"...
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vertebrates found in the area, and shared its habitat with other dinosaurian megaherbivores, as well as large theropods and crocodylomorphs. Remains thought to...
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individuals. Asian elephants are crepuscular. They are classified as megaherbivores and consume up to 150 kg (330 lb) of plant matter per day. Around 50...
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Diceros bicornis: Information. (9 April 2009) Owen-Smith, R. Norman, Megaherbivores: The Influence of Very Large Body Size on Ecology. Cambridge University...
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Qureshi, Q. & Kalle, R. (2012). "Group size and population structure of megaherbivores (gaur Bos gaurus and Asian elephant Elephas maximus) in a deciduous...
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driven to extinction or even encountered by human. The hippopotamus is a megaherbivore and is exceeded in size among land animals only by elephants and some...
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Owen-Smith, Norman; Chafota, Jonas (28 June 2012). "Selective feeding by a megaherbivore, the African elephant (Loxodonta africana)". Journal of Mammalogy. 93...
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Derek E.; Ozgul, A.; König, B. (2019). "Fission–fusion dynamics of a megaherbivore are driven by ecological, anthropogenic, temporal, and social factors"...
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their large upper canines, they were adapted to prey on large-bodied megaherbivores. Miomachairodus is the oldest known member of this subfamily. Metailurus...
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continentality hypotheses. Megaherbivores have prospered at other times of continental climate. For example, megaherbivores thrived in Pleistocene Siberia...
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rhino is a driving factor in its ecosystem. The destruction of the megaherbivore could have serious cascading effects on the ecosystem and harm other...
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than 15 kilograms (33 lb). Additionally, Owen-Smith coined the term megaherbivore to describe herbivores that weighed over 1,000 kilograms (2,200 lb)...
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Depiction of the megaherbivores in the Dinosaur Park Formation, Styracosaurus third from left, with herd in the right background...
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characteristics are thought to be adaptations for preying on Late Pleistocene megaherbivores, and in North America, its prey is known to have included western horses...
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(Dinosauria, Sauropoda): testing hypotheses of feeding behavior in an extinct megaherbivore". Naturwissenschaften. 99 (8): 637–643. Bibcode:2012NW.....99..637Y...
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occurred just before the transformation of the rangelands that supported megaherbivores into widespread wetlands that supported herbivore-resistant plants....
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direct and indirect effects of consumption and ecosystem engineering by megaherbivores". Ecology. 97 (11): 3219–3230. Bibcode:2016Ecol...97.3219C. doi:10.1002/ecy...
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Edmontosaurs (Dinosauria: Hadrosauridae): Implications for Latest Cretaceous Megaherbivore Diversity in North America". PLOS ONE. 6 (9): e25186. Bibcode:2011PLoSO...
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Tiger Reserve. Such cases are rare, as Indian rhinoceroses—like most megaherbivores—are mostly invulnerable to predation. Indian rhinos are grazers. Their...
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Tibet: Pliocene Woolly Rhino Suggests High-Plateau Origin of Ice Age Megaherbivores". Science. 333 (6047): 1285–1288. Bibcode:2011Sci...333.1285D. doi:10...
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bear. If Arctodus simus wasn't largely herbivorous, the scavenging of megaherbivore carcasses, and the occasional predatory kill would have complimented...
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March 1997 Owen-Smith, N. Pleistocene extinctions; the pivotal role of megaherbivores. Paleobiology; July 1987; v. 13; no. 3; p. 351-362 P. Brinck. The Relations...
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(2021). "The ghost of a giant – Six hypotheses for how an extinct megaherbivore structured kelp forests across the North Pacific Rim". Global Ecology...
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1080/08912963.2017.1383987. S2CID 90015342. Owen-Smith, R.N. (1992). Megaherbivores: The influence of very large body size on ecology. Cambridge studies...
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Tibet: Pliocene woolly rhino suggests high-plateau origin of Ice Age megaherbivores". Science. 333 (6047): 1285–1288. Bibcode:2011Sci...333.1285D. doi:10...
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