Table 2.

Percentage of NPP consumed by fire and mammalian herbivory by rainfall bands. This is reported against total NPP, so on average nearly 40% of above-ground NPP is consumed between 900 and 1200 mm MAP. There are many pixels (approx. 10% of the data points) where we estimate that consumption by fire and herbivory is approximately equal to above-ground NPP (see electronic supplementary material, figure S5 and discussion).

	0–300 mm	300–600 mm	600–900 mm	900–1200 mm	>1200 mm
fire	0.2	4.4	11.0	17.0	8.8
herbivory	4.1	5.8	3.4	1.4	0.5
total consumption	4.3	10.2	14.4	18.3	9.3