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The working group adopted a simple definition of herbivores:
“Herbivores are simply those animals whose feeding mechanisms and life history strategies favour the ingestion of living autotrophic cells”.
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Mann, K.H. et al. (1984). Herbivory. In: Fasham, M.J.R. (eds) Flows of Energy and Materials in Marine Ecosystems. NATO Conference Series, vol 13. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-0387-0_27
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