Effects of long-term consumer manipulations on invasion in oak savanna communities

Ecology

Volumn 90, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1356-1365

  Seabloom, Eric W ^a   Borer, Elizabeth T ^a   Martin, Burl A ^a   Orrock, John L ^b  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Consumer exclosure; Grassland; Herbivory; Mutualism; Positive interactions

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL INVASION; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; CONSUMER-RESOURCE INTERACTION; DECIDUOUS TREE; HERBIVORY; INTRODUCED SPECIES; MUTUALISM; NATIVE SPECIES; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); REFUGE; SAVANNA; SPECIES RICHNESS; UNDERSTORY;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ECOSYSTEM; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; MAMMAL; OAK; PHYSIOLOGY; TIME;

ANIMALS; ECOSYSTEM; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; MAMMALS; QUERCUS; TIME FACTORS;

CALIFORNIA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

QUERCUS; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 58849097898     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/08-0671.1     Document Type: Article

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