The effect of fire spatial scale on Bison grazing intensity

Landscape Ecology

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 337-349

  Wallace, L L ^a   Crosthwaite, K A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bison; Fire; Grazing intensity; Landscape heterogeneity; Overmatching

Indexed keywords

FIRE; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; GRASSLAND; GRAZING; LANDSCAPE STRUCTURE; OPTIMUM FORAGING THEORY;

BISON; BISON BISON;

EID: 21244479691     PISSN: 09212973     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10980-005-5648-7     Document Type: Conference Paper

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