Ecology 6th Edition by Charles Krebs

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Plants endemic to islands without large mammalian herbivores are believed to be vulnerable to damage and possible extinction because they have no evolutionary history of being grazed. Flow would you test this hypothesis that island plants lack defenses against herbivores? Compare your approach with that of Bowen and Van Vuren (1997), who studied the plants of Santa Cruz Island off California.