Credible models for herbivore-vegetation systems: Towards an ecology of equations

South African Journal of Science

Volumn 98, Issue 9-10, 2002, Pages 445-449

  Owen Smith, Norman ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONSUMER-RESOURCE INTERACTION; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; EQUATION; HERBIVORY;

KRUGER NATIONAL PARK; SOUTH AFRICA;

ANIMALIA; ELEPHANT; ELEPHANTIDAE;

EID: 0036763924     PISSN: 00382353     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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