Unpalatable plants facilitate tree sapling survival in wooded pastures

Journal of Applied Ecology

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 305-312

  Smit, Christian ^a,c   Den Ouden, Jan ^b   Müller Schärer, Heinz ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FRIBOURG   (Switzerland)

^b WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CASTILLA LA MANCHA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Associational resistance; Cattle; Cirsium acaule; Gentiana lutea; Grazing; Picea abies; Tree regeneration

Indexed keywords

CATTLE; GRAZING; PASTURE; REGENERATION; SAPLING; TRANSPLANTATION; TREE; WOODLAND;

CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; SWITZERLAND; WESTERN EUROPE;

BOS TAURUS; CIRSIUM; CIRSIUM ACAULE; EQUIDAE; EQUUS CABALLUS; GENTIANA; GENTIANA LUTEA; PICEA ABIES;

EID: 33744955594     PISSN: 00218901     EISSN: 13652664     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2664.2006.01147.x     Document Type: Article

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