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... For example, large mixed herds of grazers facilitate the food resources of one another and also help maintain optimum savanna settings, sometimes by grazing and sometimes by fostering fires (Sinclair and Norton-Griffiths, 1979; McNaughton et al., 1988; Owen-Smith, 1988~. With these interpretive tools in hand we scan the history of land mammal faunas and associated floras to envision the major succession of biomes in North America.
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  • land mammal
  • mammal faunas
  • mammal fauna
  • mammalian faunas
  • ungulate faunas

  • late eocene
  • body size
  • fossil record
  • mammal genera
  • mammalian faunal

  • faunal succession
  • mammalian fauna
  • ungulate fauna


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