Competitive hierarchies of temperate tree species: Interactions between resource availability and white-tailed deer

Ecoscience

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 494-505

  Tripler, Christopher E ^a,b   Canham, Charles D ^b   Inouye, Richard S ^a   Schnurr, Jaclyn L ^a,c  

^a Nucl Eng Idaho State University   (United States)

^b CARY INSTITUTE OF ECOSYSTEM STUDIES   (United States)

^c WELLS COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Competitive hierarchies; Deer herbivory; Forest dynamics; Neighbourhood dynamics; Rank order; Resource availability

Indexed keywords

COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); HERBIVORY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RESOURCE AVAILABILITY; SURVIVAL; TREE;

ACER RUBRUM; CERVIDAE; CONIUM; FAGUS; ODOCOILEUS VIRGINIANUS; QUERCUS RUBRA; TSUGA CANADENSIS;

EID: 30744475206     PISSN: 11956860     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2980/i1195-6860-12-4-494.1     Document Type: Article

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