White-tailed deer browsing on six shrub species of tallgrass prairie

Great Plains Research

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 141-156

  Van der Hoek, Dirk Jan ^a   Knapp, Alan K ^b   Briggs, John M ^c   Bokdam, Jan ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Browsing; Kansas; Konza Prairie; Shrubs; Tallgrass prairie; White tailed deer

Indexed keywords

BROWSING; PLANT-HERBIVORE INTERACTION; PRAIRIE; SHRUB;

NORTH AMERICA;

ANIMALIA; CERVIDAE; CORNUS; FRAXINUS; ODOCOILEUS VIRGINIANUS; PRUNUS DOMESTICA; RHUS; RHUS AROMATICA; RHUS GLABRA; RIPARIA; ZANTHOXYLUM; ZANTHOXYLUM HIRSUTUM;

EID: 0036523903     PISSN: 10525165     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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