Plant species diversity and grazing in the Scandinavian mountains - Patterns and processes at different spatial scales

Ecography

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 683-695

  Austrheim, Gunnar ^a   Eriksson, Ove ^a  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; GRAZING; MOUNTAIN REGION; SCALE EFFECT; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

SCANDINAVIA;

ANIMALIA; OVIS ARIES; RANGIFER TARANDUS;

EID: 0035707728     PISSN: 09067590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0587.2001.tb00530.x     Document Type: Article

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