Do delayed effects of overgrazing explain population cycles in voles?

Oikos

Volumn 90, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 509-516

  Klemola, Tero ^a,b   Norrdahl, Kai ^a   Korpimäki, Erkki ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OVERGRAZING; PLANT-HERBIVORE INTERACTION; POPULATION CYCLE; RODENT;

ANIMALIA; MICROTUS; MICROTUS AGRESTIS; MURIDAE; POACEAE; RODENTIA;

EID: 0033779621     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1600-0706.2000.900309.x     Document Type: Article

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