Are silica defences in grasses driving vole population cycles?

Biology Letters

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 419-422

  Massey, F P ^a   Smith, M J ^b,c,d   Lambin, X ^c   Hartley, S E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

^b HERIOT WATT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^d MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Grass; Herbivory; Microtus; Population cycles; Silica

Indexed keywords

SILICON DIOXIDE;

BODY MASS; GRASS; LIFE HISTORY; POPULATION CYCLE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RODENT; SILICA;

ARTICLE; BODY MASS; DESCHAMPSIA CAESPITOSA; FEMALE; FOOD; GRASS; HERBIVORE; LIFE HISTORY; MICROTUS AGRESTIS; NONHUMAN; PLANT; PLANT LEAF; POPULATION CYCLE; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION GROWTH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RODENT; VOLE; WINTER;

DESCHAMPSIA CESPITOSA; MICROTUS; MICROTUS AGRESTIS; MURIDAE; POACEAE; RODENTIA;

EID: 46949090311     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2008.0106     Document Type: Article

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