Large scale experimental effects of three levels of sheep densities on an alpine ecosystem

Oikos

Volumn 117, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 837-846

  Austrheim, Gunnar ^a   Mysterud, Atle ^b   Pedersen, Bård ^a   Halvorsen, Rune ^b   Hassel, Kristian ^a   Evju, Marianne ^b  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPINE ENVIRONMENT; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; COMMUNITY RESPONSE; ECOSYSTEM; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; GRAZING; PLANT-HERBIVORE INTERACTION; SHEEP; VEGETATION COVER; VEGETATION DYNAMICS;

EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTHERN EUROPE; NORWAY; SCANDINAVIA;

BRYOPHYTA; BRYOPHYTES; OVIS ARIES; TRACHEOPHYTA;

EID: 45749108600     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: 16000706     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0030-1299.2008.16543.x     Document Type: Article

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