Grazing history versus current grazing: Leaf demography and compensatory growth of three alpine plants in response to a native herbivore (Ochotona collaris)

Journal of Ecology

Volumn 90, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 348-359

  McIntire, Eliot J B ^a,b   Hik, David S ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Alpine meadows; Collared pika; Erigeron humilis; Grazing history; Herbivory gradient; Kobresia myosuroides; Ochotona collaris; Oxytropis nigrescens

Indexed keywords

COMPENSATION; DEMOGRAPHY; GRAZING; GROWTH; LEAF; PLANT-HERBIVORE INTERACTION;

CANADA;

ANIMALIA; ERIGERON; ERIGERON HUMILIS; KOBRESIA; KOBRESIA MYOSUROIDES; LAGOMORPHA; OCHOTONA; OCHOTONA COLLARIS; OCHOTONA PRINCEPS; OCHOTONIDAE; OXYTROPIS; OXYTROPIS NIGRESCENS;

EID: 0036231567     PISSN: 00220477     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2745.2001.00672.x     Document Type: Article

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