Allocation of resources within mountain birch canopy after simulated winter browsing

Oikos

Volumn 90, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 160-170

  Lehtilä, Kari ^a,b   Haukioja, Erkki ^a   Kaitaniemi, Pekka ^a   Laine, Kari A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

^b STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS ALLOCATION; BROWSING; GROWTH RESPONSE; PLANT-HERBIVORE INTERACTION;

ANIMALIA; BETULA; BETULA PUBESCENS; BETULA PUBESCENS SUBSP. TORTUOSA;

EID: 0033858838     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1600-0706.2000.900116.x     Document Type: Article

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