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Selected Landscapes Under the Influence of Wild Herbivorous Mammals

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Examples of different habitats from different regions are the focus, including tropical savannas, temperate grasslands and woodlands, boreal and subarctic forests, and Arctic tundra.

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Holtmeier, FK. (2015). Selected Landscapes Under the Influence of Wild Herbivorous Mammals. In: Animals' Influence on the Landscape and Ecological Importance. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-9294-3_3

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