Effects of rooting by feral hogs Sus Scrofa L. on the structure of a floodplain vegetation assemblage

Wetlands

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 535-544

  Arrington, D Albrey ^a   Toth, Louis A ^b   Koebel Jr , Joseph W ^b  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SOUTH FLORIDA WATER MANAGEMENT DISTRICT   (United States)

Author keywords

Disturbance; Ecosystem engineer; Feral hogs; Habitat diversity; Hog rooting; Percent cover; Species richness; Sus scrofa; Wetlands

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; MARSH; ROOTING; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; VEGETATION COVER;

FLORIDA; UNITED STATES;

CELLULAR ORGANISMS; SUIDAE; SUS SCROFA;

EID: 0033385901     PISSN: 02775212     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF03161691     Document Type: Article

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