Abstract
COVER PHOTO: An African bush elephant (Loxodonta africana) and two Grévy's zebras (Equus grevyi) forage at Mpala Research Centre and Conservancy in Laikipia, Kenya during July 2019. These and other herbivores suppress plant biomass, and herbivore extinctions may trigger a cascade of broader changes throughout the ecological communities they once inhabited. In their Data Paper published in this issue, Alston, et al. (Article e3649; doi:10.1002/ecy.3649) provide twelve years of data on vegetation, rainfall, and mammal densities in the Ungulate Herbivory Under Rainfall Uncertainty (UHURU) Experiment, a series of long-term herbivore exclosures designed to mimic the effects of size-selective herbivore extinctions on plant and small mammal communities inhabiting African savannas. Photo credit: Courtney Reed.
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