Different responses of plants and herbivore insects to a gradient of vegetation height: An indicator of the vertebrate grazing intensity and successional age

Oikos

Volumn 115, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 401-412

  Pöyry, Juha ^a   Luoto, Miska ^a,b   Paukkunen, Juho ^a   Pykälä, Juha ^a   Raatikainen, Katja ^a   Kuussaari, Mikko ^a  

^a FINNISH ENVIRONMENT INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUTTERFLY; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; GRASSLAND; GRAZING; HEIGHT; MOTH; PLANT-HERBIVORE INTERACTION; PLANT-INSECT INTERACTION; SPECIES RICHNESS; SUCCESSION; TOLERANCE;

EURASIA; EUROPE; FINLAND; NORTHERN EUROPE; SCANDINAVIA;

HEXAPODA; INSECTA; LEPIDOPTERA; TRACHEOPHYTA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 33751236194     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: 16000706     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.2006.0030-1299.15126.x     Document Type: Article

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