The plant vigour hypothesis revisited - How is browsing by ungulates and elephant related to woody species growth rate?

Plant Ecology

Volumn 184, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 163-172

  Makhabu, Shimane W ^a,c   Skarpe, Christina ^b   Hytteborn, Håkan ^a   Mpofu, Zenzele D ^c  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^b NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE FOR NATURE RESEARCH   (Norway)

^c Department of Wildlife and National Parks ^*  (Botswana)

Author keywords

Botswana; Fibre content; Plant nutrients; Tannin activity; Unimodal relationship

Indexed keywords

BROWSING; ELEPHANT; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; GROWTH RATE; HERBIVORE; NUTRIENT AVAILABILITY; SAVANNA; SHOOT GROWTH; UNGULATE; WOODY PLANT;

AFRICA; BOTSWANA; SOUTHERN AFRICA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

UNGULATA;

EID: 33745036972     PISSN: 13850237     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11258-005-9060-9     Document Type: Article

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