Vole-vegetation interactions in an experimental, enemy free taiga floor system

Oikos

Volumn 116, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 1501-1513

  Rammul, Üllar ^a,b   Oksanen, Tarja ^c   Oksanen, Lauri ^c,d   Lehtelä, Jouko ^a   Virtanen, Risto ^a   Olofsson, Johan ^c   Strengbom, Joachim ^c,e   Rammul, Ivi ^f   Ericson, Lars ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

^b TALLINN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Estonia)

^c UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

^e UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^f Pirita Business Highschool   (Estonia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; BOREAL FOREST; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; GRAZING; NUTRIENT; PLANT-HERBIVORE INTERACTION; POPULATION TYPE; RODENT; VEGETATION;

ACONITUM; ACONITUM LYCOCTONUM; BASSIA SCOPARIA; FILICOPHYTA; MICROTUS; MICROTUS AGRESTIS; MURIDAE;

EID: 34548024865     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: 16000706     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.2007.0030-1299.14981.x     Document Type: Article

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