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Elephants versus butterflies: the ecological role of large herbivores in the evolutionary history of two tropical worlds

2003-09-01

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Aim Large herbivores have important effects upon Paleotropical ecosystems, but attain much lower biomass densities in the Neotropics. We assess how this difference in herbivore activity has generated different ecological and evolutionary trajectories in the New and Old World tropics. We also propose an explanation for how the greater biomass density in the Old World came about. Location Data were compiled primaril...

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Literature Corpus work: ecd8f436-36ce-5958-a1f2-18de9ee35959
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2699.2003.00926.x

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