Influence of fire, topography, and consumer abundance on seed predation in tallgrass prairie

Canadian Journal of Zoology

Volumn 82, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 1459-1467

  Reed, Aaron W ^a,b   Kaufman, Glennis A ^a   Kaufman, Donald W ^a  

^a KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Dept of Ecol Evolutionary Biology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIRES; LIMESTONE; SURFACE TOPOGRAPHY;

FIRE FREQUENCY; SEED PREDATION; SEED REMOVAL; SEED TRAYS;

SEED;

FIRE; INVERTEBRATE; PRAIRIE; SEED PREDATION; TOPOGRAPHY; VERTEBRATE;

FIRES; FOREST LITTER; LIME STONE; SEEDS; TOPOGRAPHY;

INVERTEBRATA; RODENTIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 11144236263     PISSN: 00084301     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/Z04-126     Document Type: Article

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