From plant neighbourhood to landscape scales: How grazing modifies native and exotic plant species richness in grassland

Plant Ecology

Volumn 191, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 185-198

  Dorrough, Josh W ^a,b,c   Ash, Julian E ^a   Bruce, Sarah ^a   McIntyre, Sue ^c  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b ARTHUR RYLAH INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH   (Australia)

^c CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Coexistence; Competition; Herbivory; Productivity; Resources; Spatial heterogeneity

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; COEXISTENCE; COLONIZATION; COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); GRASSLAND; GRAZING; HERBIVORY; HETEROGENEITY; LANDSCAPE; NATIVE SPECIES; POPULATION DECLINE; SPECIES RICHNESS; UNGULATE;

UNGULATA;

EID: 34250885392     PISSN: 13850237     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11258-006-9236-y     Document Type: Article

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