Feedback loops in ecological hierarchies following urine deposition in tallgrass prairie

Ecology

Volumn 82, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 1319-1329

  Steinauer, Ernest M ^a   Collins, Scott L ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^b KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Bison grazing and patch dynamics; Grazing; Hierarchy theory; Konza Prairie Biological Station (Kansas, USA); Patch structure; Small perturbation affects large scale structure; Spatial structure in grassland vegetation; Spatial variation; Species diversity; Tallgrass prairie, effects of urine and grazing; Vegetation structure

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; GRAZING; PRAIRIE; SPATIAL VARIATION; URINE; VEGETATION STRUCTURE;

ANDROPOGON GERARDII; ASTER ERICOIDES;

EID: 0034978054     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/0012-9658(2001)082[1319:FLIEHF]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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