The relationship between species density and community biomass in grazed and ungrazed coastal meadows

Oikos

Volumn 85, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 398-408

  Grace, James B ^a   Jutila, Heli ^b  

^a NATIONAL WETLANDS RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b FINNISH ENVIRONMENT INSTITUTE   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; COMPETITION; DENSITY; GRAZING;

FINLAND;

EID: 0033042382     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3546689     Document Type: Article

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