Survival, growth, and escape from herbivory are determined by habitat and herbivore species for three Australian woodland plants

Oecologia

Volumn 138, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 231-241

  Allcock, Kimberly G ^a,b   Hik, David S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

Author keywords

Callitris glaucophylla; Eucalyptus albens; Stage based matrix models; Themeda australis; Woodland restoration

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; EXCLUSION EXPERIMENT; GRASSLAND; GROWTH; PLANT COMMUNITY; PLANT-HERBIVORE INTERACTION; SURVIVAL; WOODLAND;

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CONIFER; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENT; EUCALYPTUS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; PLANT; POACEAE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RABBIT; SURVIVAL;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; CONIFEROPHYTA; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENT; EUCALYPTUS; PLANTS, EDIBLE; POACEAE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RABBITS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA;

ANIMALIA; CALLITRIS; CALLITRIS GLAUCOPHYLLA; CONIFEROPHYTA; EUCALYPTUS; EUCALYPTUS ALBENS; MAMMALIA; ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS; POACEAE; THEMEDA; THEMEDA AUSTRALIS;

EID: 0842309122     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-003-1420-3     Document Type: Article

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