Micropatterns in Festuca rubra-dominated salt-marsh vegetation induced by sheep grazing

Plant Ecology

Volumn 132, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 1-14

  Berg, Gertrud ^a   Esselink, Peter ^a,b   Groeneweg, Menko ^a   Kiehl, Kathrin ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b Stichting Het Groninger Landschap   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Festuca rubra; Grazing pattern; Herbivore selectivity; Micropattern; Salt marsh; Sheep grazing

Indexed keywords

GRAZING; SALTMARSH; SHEEP; STOCKING RATE; VEGETATION PATTERN;

FESTUCA RUBRA; OVIS ARIES; POACEAE;

EID: 0030779860     PISSN: 13850237     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1009727804007     Document Type: Article

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