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Capybaras (Hydrochoerus hydrochaeris) Generate Grazing Lawns and Maintain Plant Diversity in Neotropical Savanna

2025-01-01

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QUESTIONS: Herbivores can exert strong top‐down control on vegetation structure and composition, which in turn can affect overall biodiversity and ecosystem processes. However, South American megafauna was largely driven to extinction in recent prehistory, and remaining species have suffered severe range reductions from human actions. The potential role of South American megafauna in shaping vegetation therefore r...

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Literature Corpus work: 606e74bc-ba2f-566c-bd40-fe6a96b3540e
DOI: 10.1111/avsc.70013

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