Includes bibliographical references and index.

Large herbivores across biomes / Hervé Fritz and Anne Loison -- Living in a seasonal environment / Jon Moen, Reidar Andersen, and Andrew Illius -- Linking functional responses and foraging behaviour to population dynamics / Andrew W. Illius -- Impacts of large herbivores on plant community structure and dynamics / Alison J. Hester ... [et al.] -- Long-term effects of herbivory on plant diversity and functional types in arid ecosystems / David Ward -- The influence of large herbivores on tree recruitment and forest dynamics / Robin Gill -- Large herbivores : missing partners of western European light-demanding tree and shrub species? / Frans W.M. Vera, Elisabeth S. Bakker, and Han Olff -- Frugivory in large mammalian herbivores / Richard Bodmer and David Ward -- Large herbivores as sources of disturbance in ecosystems / N. Thompson Hobbs -- The roles of large herbivores in ecosystem nutrient cycles / John Pastor, Yosef Cohen, and N. Thompson Hobbs -- Large herbivores in heterogeneous grassland ecosystems / Douglas A. Frank -- Modelling of large herbivore-vegetation interactions in a landscape context / Peter J. Weisberg, Michael B. Coughenour, and Harald Bugmann-- Effects of large herbivores on other fauna / Otso Suominen and Kjell Danell -- The future role of large carnivores in terrestrial trophic interactions : the northern temperate view / Reidar Andersen, John D.C. Linnell, and Erling J. Solberg -- Restoring the functions of grazed ecosystems / Iain J. Gordon -- Themes and future directions in herbivore-ecosystem interactions and conservation / John Pastor ... [et al.].

"For the purposes of this book, we define large herbivores as even-toed (Artiodactyla) and odd-toed ungulates (Perissodactyla) over 5 kg, and elephants (Proboscidea)"--P. 2.