Resilience of willow stems after release from intense elk browsing

Rangeland Ecology and Management

Volumn 58, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 575-581

  Baker, Bruce W ^a,d   Peinetti, H Raul ^b   Coughenour, Michael B ^c  

^a FORT COLLINS SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE LA PAMPA   (Argentina)

^c Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^d U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

Alternative stable states; Cervus elaphus; Herbivory; Rocky Mountain National Park; Salix; Stem morphology

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; BROWSING; EXCLUSION EXPERIMENT; PLANT-HERBIVORE INTERACTION; REGROWTH; RESILIENCE;

COLORADO; NORTH AMERICA; ROCKY MOUNTAIN NATIONAL PARK; UNITED STATES;

CERVUS ELAPHUS; SALIX; SALIX GEYERIANA; SALIX MONTICOLA; SALIX PLANIFOLIA;

EID: 29344475414     PISSN: 15507424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2111/05-043R.1     Document Type: Article

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