Integration of ecosystem engineering and trophic effects of herbivores

Oikos

Volumn 92, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 436-444

  Wilby, Andrew ^a,b   Shachak, Moshe ^a   Boeken, Bertrand ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b NATURAL ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH COUNCIL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECOLOGICAL ENGINEERING; HERBIVORY; PLANT-HERBIVORE INTERACTION; TROPHIC INTERACTION;

ISRAEL; NEGEV DESERT;

ANIMALIA; ERETHIZON DORSATUM; FORMICIDAE; HYMENOPTERA; HYSTRIX CRISTATA; HYSTRIX INDICA; MESSOR EBENINUS;

EID: 0035074561     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1600-0706.2001.920305.x     Document Type: Article

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