Indirect effects of mammalian browsers on vegetation and ground-dwelling insects in an Alaskan floodplain

Ecoscience

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 505-510

  Suominen, Otso ^a,c   Danell, Kjell ^a   Bryant, John P ^b  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

^c UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Browsing; Coleoptera; Ecosystem effects; Moose; Orthoptera; Snowshoe hare

Indexed keywords

BROWSING; FLORISTICS; IMPACT; INSECT; MAMMAL; RELATIVE ABUNDANCE;

ALASKA; UNITED STATES;

COLEOPTERA; EQUISETUM; ORTHOPTERA; PYROLA ASARIFOLIA;

EID: 0033491410     PISSN: 11956860     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/11956860.1999.11682554     Document Type: Article

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