Ungulate browsing in winter reduces the growth of Fraxinus and Acer saplings in subsequent unbrowsed years

Plant Ecology

Volumn 198, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 121-134

  Kupferschmid, Andrea D ^a   Bugmann, Harald ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Ash; Growth rates; Herbivory; Maple; Tree regeneration; Von Bertalanffy growth equation

Indexed keywords

BROWSING; DECIDUOUS TREE; GROWTH RESPONSE; HEIGHT; HERBIVORY; REGENERATION; SAPLING; STAND DYNAMICS; WINTER;

ALBISRIEDERBERG; CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; SWITZERLAND; ZURICH [SWITZERLAND];

ACER; ACER PSEUDOPLATANUS; CAPREOLUS; CAPREOLUS CAPREOLUS; CERVIDAE; FRAXINUS; FRAXINUS EXCELSIOR; UNGULATA;

EID: 48449096816     PISSN: 13850237     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11258-007-9390-x     Document Type: Article

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