Seasonal dynamics of plant species at fine scale in wooded pastures

Community Ecology

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 7-17

  Kohler, F ^a,b   Gillet, F ^a,b   Progin, M A ^b   Gobat, J M ^b   Buttler, A ^a,c  

^a SWISS FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE WSL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEUCHÂTEL   (Switzerland)

^c CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Carousel model; Cattle activity; Scale; Spatial monitoring; Species mobility; Turnover; Vegetation dynamics

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; PLANT COMMUNITY; SEASONAL VARIATION; TURNOVER; VEGETATION DYNAMICS;

BOS TAURUS;

EID: 3142695744     PISSN: 15858553     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1556/ComEc.5.2004.1.2     Document Type: Article

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