Sheep versus donkey grazing or mixed treatment: Results from a 4-year field experiment in Armerio-Festucetum trachyphyllae sand vegetation

Phytocoenologia

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 135-160

  Süss, Karin ^a   Schwabe, Angelika ^a  

^a DARMSTADT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Gap creation; Livestock; Microsites; Nitrogen input; Ruderalisation; Vegetation pattern

Indexed keywords

ACIDIFICATION; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FLORISTICS; GRAZING PRESSURE; PHYTOMASS; PLANT COMMUNITY; RUDERAL; SPECIES RICHNESS; TOPSOIL; VEGETATION COVER; VEGETATION STRUCTURE;

CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; GERMANY; RHINE VALLEY; UPPER RHINE VALLEY;

ANIMALIA; EQUUS ASINUS; FESTUCA; OVIS ARIES; POACEAE;

EID: 33947693675     PISSN: 0340269X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1127/0340-269X/2007/0037-0135     Document Type: Article

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