Herbivory on Acacia seedlings in an East African savanna

Oikos

Volumn 98, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 385-392

  Shaw, Margaret T ^a   Keesing, Felicia ^a   Ostfeld, Richard S ^b  

^a BARD COLLEGE   (United States)

^b CARY INSTITUTE OF ECOSYSTEM STUDIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; HERBIVORY; SAVANNA; SEEDLING; TREE;

AFRICA;

ACACIA; ACACIA DREPANOLOBIUM; ANIMALIA; INVERTEBRATA; MAMMALIA; RODENTIA;

EID: 0036746199     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1600-0706.2002.980303.x     Document Type: Article

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