Morphological and chemical responses of mountain birch leaves and shoots to winter browsing along a gradient of plant productivity

Ecoscience

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 296-303

  Danell, Kjell ^a   Haukioja, Erkki ^b   Huss Danell, Kerstin ^a,c  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

^c UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Browsing; Herbivory; Moose; Mountain birch; Plant chemistry; Plant morphology; Plant herbivore interactions

Indexed keywords

ALCES ALCES; BETULA; BETULA PENDULA; BETULA PUBESCENS SUBSP. TORTUOSA; GASTROPODA; INVERTEBRATA; PENDULA; BETULA PUBESCENS;

CHEMICAL RESPONSE; MORPHOLOGICAL RESPONSE; MOUNTAIN BIRCH; PLANT PRODUCTIVITY; PLANT-HERBIVORE INTERACTION; WINTER BROWSING;

EID: 0031393792     PISSN: 11956860     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/11956860.1997.11682408     Document Type: Article

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