Planting densities and bird and rodent absence affect size distributions of four dicots in synthetic tallgrass communities

Oecologia

Volumn 139, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 433-439

  Martínez Garza, Cristina ^a   Saha, Sonali ^a   Torres, Veronica ^a   Brown, Joel S ^a   Howe, Henry F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Dalea; Desmanthus; Echinacea; Heliopsis; Tallgrass prairie

Indexed keywords

BIRD; COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); DENSITY DEPENDENCE; GRASSLAND; SEEDING; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; SMALL MAMMAL;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ARVICOLINAE; ASTERACEAE; BIOMASS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ECHINACEA; ECOSYSTEM; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; LEGUME; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; UNITED STATES;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ARVICOLINAE; ASTERACEAE; BIOMASS; ECHINACEA; ECOSYSTEM; FABACEAE; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; ILLINOIS; POPULATION DENSITY;

ILLINOIS; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

AVES; DALEA; DALEA LASIATHERA; DALEA PURPUREA; DESMANTHUS; DESMANTHUS ILLINOENSIS; DICOTYLEDONEAE; ECHINACEA (ASTERACEAE); ECHINACEA PURPUREA; HELIANTHUS; HELIOPSIS; HELIOPSIS HELIANTHOIDES; MAMMALIA; PENSTEMON SPECIOSUS; RODENTIA; TRIFOLIUM; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 4544334409     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-004-1521-7     Document Type: Article

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