Impact of cervid browsing and grazing on the terrestrial gastropod fauna in the boreal forests of Fennoscandia

Ecography

Volumn 22, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 651-658

  Suominen, Otso ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOREAL FOREST; BROWSING; GRAZING; INVERTEBRATE;

FINLAND;

ALCES ALCES; ANIMALIA; CERVIDAE; GASTROPODA; INVERTEBRATA; MAMMALIA; RANGIFER TARANDUS;

EID: 0033507118     PISSN: 09067590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0587.1999.tb00514.x     Document Type: Article

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