ECOLOGICAL research is showing that historic populations of wild herbivores on the planet are likely to have been much higher than previous estimates have suggested, and were at levels that “more or less” match current domestic herbivore biomass across the world.
Pablo Manzano, a rangeland ecologist who works with the University of Basque in Spain and the University of Helsinki in Finland, says more evidence is emerging to show that previous studies have under-estimated the number of wild herbivores historically.
Dr Pablo Manzano. Image: Basque Centre for Climate Change.
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