Competition between two grass species with and without grazing over a productivity gradient

Plant Ecology

Volumn 179, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 237-246

  Kuijper, D P J ^a   Dubbeld, J ^a   Bakker, J P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Elymus athericus; Festuca rubra; Salt marsh succession

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL INVASION; GRASS; GRAZING; HERBIVORY; INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION; SOIL NUTRIENT;

ANSER; ANSER SP.; ELYMUS; ELYMUS ATHERICUS; FESTUCA; FESTUCA RUBRA; LEPUS;

EID: 21144442401     PISSN: 13850237     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11258-005-0199-1     Document Type: Article

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