Herbivory limits recruitment in an old-field seed addition experiment

Ecology

Volumn 88, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1105-1111

  MacDougall, Andrew S ^a,b   Wilson, Scott D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF REGINA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

Author keywords

Competition; Disturbance; Eutrophication; Herbivory; Indirect effects; Northern Great Plains; Plant invasion; Propagule pressure; Species coexistence

Indexed keywords

BROWSING; COEXISTENCE; COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); DISTURBANCE; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION; EUTROPHICATION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; GRASSLAND; HERBIVORY; HUMAN ACTIVITY; INVASIVE SPECIES; OLD FIELD; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS);

GREAT PLAINS; NORTH AMERICA;

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ARVICOLINAE; BIODIVERSITY; BIOMASS; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FOOD CHAIN; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HARE; PEROMYSCUS; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT; POACEAE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION GROWTH; RODENT; SCIURIDAE; SEEDLING; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; ARVICOLINAE; BIODIVERSITY; BIOMASS; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECOSYSTEM; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FOOD CHAIN; HARES; PEROMYSCUS; PLANTS, EDIBLE; POACEAE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION GROWTH; RODENTIA; SCIURIDAE; SEEDLING; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 34447105049     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/06-1836     Document Type: Article

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