Interactions between herbivory and resource availability on grazing tolerance of Leymus chinensis

Environmental and Experimental Botany

Volumn 63, Issue 1-3, 2008, Pages 113-122

  Gao, Ying ^a   Wang, Deli ^a   Ba, Lei ^a   Bai, Yuguang ^b   Liu, Bao ^a  

^a NORTHEAST NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

Author keywords

Compensatory continuum hypothesis (CCH); Grazing tolerance; Growth Rate Model (GRM); Herbivory; Leymus chinensis; Limiting resource model (LRM); Nutrient; Resource availability; Water

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; CLIPPING; GRASS; GRAZING; GROWTH RATE; HERBIVORY; NUTRIENT; REPRODUCTION; RESOURCE AVAILABILITY; WATER AVAILABILITY;

LEYMUS CHINENSIS;

EID: 39749177105     PISSN: 00988472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envexpbot.2007.10.030     Document Type: Article

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