Selecting herb species and traits as indicators of sheep grazing pressure in a Norwegian alpine habitat

Ecoscience

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 459-468

  Evju, Marianne ^a   Mysterud, Atle ^a   Austrheim, Gunnar ^b   Økland, Rune H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

Author keywords

Flowering frequency; Grazing frequency; Herbivory; Monitoring; Selectivity

Indexed keywords

FLOWERING; GRAZING MANAGEMENT; GRAZING PRESSURE; HABITAT SELECTION; HERB; HERBIVORY; MONITORING; MORPHOLOGY;

EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTHERN EUROPE; SCANDINAVIA;

ERICACEAE; OVIS ARIES; PYROLA MINOR; RUMEX; RUMEX ACETOSA; SAUSSUREA;

EID: 33747518038     PISSN: 11956860     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2980/1195-6860(2006)13[459:SHSATA]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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