Availability and quality of herbivore winter browse in relation to tree height and snow depth

Annales Zoologici Fennici

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 305-314

  Nordengren, Caroline ^a,b   Hofgaard, Annika ^a,c   Ball, John P ^b  

^a Climate Impacts Research Centre   (Sweden)

^b SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^c NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE FOR NATURE RESEARCH   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; HEIGHT; HERBIVORE; SNOW; TREE; VERTICAL DISTRIBUTION; WINTER;

SCANDINAVIA;

ANIMALIA; SALIX;

EID: 0038573663     PISSN: 0003455X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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