Lemming grazing and structure of a snowbed plant community - A long-term experiment at Kilpisjarvi, Finnish Lapland

Oikos

Volumn 79, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 155-166

  Virtanen, Risto ^a   Henttonen, Heikki ^b   Laine, Kari ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

^b FINNISH FOREST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GRAZING; HAIRCAP MOSS; NORWEGIAN LEMMING; SNOWBED;

FINLAND, KILPISJARVI;

LEMMUS LEMMUS; POLYTRICHACEAE;

EID: 0030618267     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3546100     Document Type: Article

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