Effects of the availability of herbaceous food on vole attacks on birch seedlings

Ecoscience

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 155-160

  Pusenius, Jyrki ^a   Prittinen, Kaarina ^a   Roininen, Heikki ^a   Rousi, Matti ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

^b FINNISH FOREST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

Author keywords

Betula; Birch; Foraging; Herbivory; Microtus; Optimal diet theory; Seedling; Short term apparent competition; Vole

Indexed keywords

APPARENT COMPETITION; FOOD AVAILABILITY; FOOD PREFERENCE; FOOD QUALITY; HERB; HERBIVORY; OPTIMUM FORAGING THEORY; RODENT; SEEDLING;

BETULA; MICROTONUS; MICROTUS; MURIDAE; RODENTIA;

EID: 0041621497     PISSN: 11956860     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/11956860.2003.11682762     Document Type: Article

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