Wooded habitat edges as refugia from microtine herbivory in tallgrass prairies

Oikos

Volumn 100, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 525-533

  Nickel, Anne M ^a   Danielson, Brent J ^a   Moloney, Kirk A ^a  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; FOREST EDGE; HERBIVORY; PLANT-HERBIVORE INTERACTION; PRAIRIE; RODENT;

UNITED STATES;

ANIMALIA; DALEA; DALEA LASIATHERA; DALEA PURPUREA; DESMANTHUS; DESMANTHUS ILLINOENSIS; MICROTUS; MICROTUS PENNSYLVANICUS; MURIDAE; PENSTEMON SPECIOSUS; RODENTIA; TRIFOLIUM;

EID: 0038623561     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1600-0706.2003.11959.x     Document Type: Article

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