Moss species benefits from breakdown of cyclic rodent dynamics in boreal forests

Ecology

Volumn 88, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 2320-2329

  Rydgren, Knut ^a   Økland, Rune H ^b   Picó, F Xavier ^c,d   De Kroon, Hans ^e  

^a WESTERN NORWAY UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^c DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION BIOLOGY   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^e RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Boreal clonal moss; Bryophytes; Climatic change; Disturbance; Elasticity; Hylocomium splendens; Matrix population models; Microtine rodent cycles; Resistance to herbivory; Stochastic growth rate

Indexed keywords

BOREAL FOREST; BRYOPHYTE; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; GROWTH RATE; PERIODICITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION GROWTH; POPULATION MODELING; RODENT;

EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTHERN EUROPE; NORWAY; SCANDINAVIA;

BRYOPHYTA; BRYOPHYTES; HYLOCOMIUM SPLENDENS; RODENTIA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ARVICOLINAE; CLIMATE; DEMOGRAPHY; ECOSYSTEM; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MOSS; PERIODICITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; STATISTICS;

ANIMALS; ARVICOLINAE; BRYOPHYTA; CLIMATE; DEMOGRAPHY; ECOSYSTEM; PERIODICITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES;

EID: 38449108607     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/06-1634.1     Document Type: Article

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