Deciduous woodland conservation under heavy deer browsing on Devils Tower National Monument, USA

Journal for Nature Conservation

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 221-232

  Merrill, Evelyn H ^a   Beyer, Hawthorne L ^a   Jones, George P ^b   McDaniel, Gregory W ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b Wyoming Nature Conservancy   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

Author keywords

Fencing; Herbivory; Matrix model; Odocoileus; Prunus; Resilience

Indexed keywords

BROWSING; DECIDUOUS FOREST; ECOSYSTEM RESILIENCE; EXCLUSION EXPERIMENT; NATURE CONSERVATION; PLANT COMMUNITY; PLANT-HERBIVORE INTERACTION; UNGULATE;

DEVILS TOWER NATIONAL MONUMENT; UNITED STATES; WYOMING;

CERVIDAE; ODOCOILEUS; ODOCOILEUS HEMIONUS; ODOCOILEUS VIRGINIANUS; PRUNUS; UNGULATA;

EID: 0037276591     PISSN: 16171381     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1078/1617-1381-00022     Document Type: Article

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