Site productivity and plant size explain the response of annual species to grazing exclusion in a Mediterranean semi-arid rangeland

Journal of Ecology

Volumn 92, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 297-309

  Osem, Yagil ^a   Perevolotsky, Avi ^b   Kigel, Jaime ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b VOLCANI CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

Community structure; Competition; Functional traits; Response groups; Similarity

Indexed keywords

COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); GRAZING; PRODUCTIVITY; RANGELAND; SEMIARID REGION;

ASIA; EURASIA; ISRAEL; MIDDLE EAST;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 1842534545     PISSN: 00220477     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0022-0477.2004.00859.x     Document Type: Article

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