Do plant-community-based grazing regimes lead to epizoochorous dispersal of high proportions of target species?

Flora: Morphology, Distribution, Functional Ecology of Plants

Volumn 203, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 304-326

  Wessels, Saskia ^a   Eichberg, Carsten ^a   Storm, Christian ^a   Schwabe, Angelika ^a  

^a DARMSTADT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Domestic herbivores; Fragmentation; Intra and inter area seed dispersal; Seed traits; Target plant species

Indexed keywords

GRAZING; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; HERBIVORE; MORPHOLOGY; PLANT COMMUNITY; SEED DISPERSAL; SHEEP; ZOOCHORY;

AGRIMONIA; ANIMALIA; MEDICAGO; MEDICAGO MINIMA; OVIS ARIES; STIPA CAPILLATA; VERBASCUM; VERBASCUM PHLOMOIDES;

EID: 43049159540     PISSN: 03672530     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.flora.2007.04.006     Document Type: Article

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