The interacting effects of herbivore exclosures and seed addition in a wet meadow

Oikos

Volumn 117, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 1057-1063

  Fraser, L H ^a,b   Madson, E B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AKRON   (United States)

^b THOMPSON RIVERS UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIRD; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; HERBIVORE; INVASIVE SPECIES; MEADOW; NATIVE SPECIES; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); RESTORATION ECOLOGY; SEEDLING ESTABLISHMENT; SMALL MAMMAL;

NORTH AMERICA; OHIO; UNITED STATES;

AVES; CAREX; MAMMALIA; MICROTUS PENNSYLVANICUS; POACEAE;

EID: 47749115391     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: 16000706     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0030-1299.2008.16251.x     Document Type: Article

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