Moose, trees, and ground-living invertebrates: Indirect interactions in Swedish pine forests

Oikos

Volumn 84, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 215-226

  Suominen, Otso ^a   Danell, Kjell ^b   Bergström, Roger ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

^b SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^c Swedish Hunters' Association   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOREAL FOREST; SOIL DYNAMICS; VEGETATION;

SWEDEN;

ALCES ALCES; ANIMALIA; BRYOPHYTA; INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 0033044181     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3546716     Document Type: Article

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