Response of the clonal plant Apium repens (Jacq.) Lag. to extensive grazing

Flora: Morphology, Distribution, Functional Ecology of Plants

Volumn 203, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 141-151

  Rosenthal, Gert ^a   Lederbogen, Dirk ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KASSEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Competitive change; Disturbance regime; Foraging behaviour; Heterogeneous environments; Population dynamics; Stolon propagation

Indexed keywords

ANGIOSPERM; BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; CATTLE; CLONAL ORGANISM; COEXISTENCE; COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); DISTURBANCE; GRAZING; PASTURE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEASONAL VARIATION; SPATIAL VARIATION; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

APIUM; APIUM REPENS; BOS;

EID: 44249114117     PISSN: 03672530     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.flora.2007.02.004     Document Type: Article

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