Grazing responses in herbs in relation to herbivore selectivity and plant traits in an alpine ecosystem

Oecologia

Volumn 161, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 77-85

  Evju, Marianne ^a   Austrheim, Gunnar ^b   Halvorsen, Rune ^a   Mysterud, Atle ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

Author keywords

Abundance change; Cessation of grazing; Enhancement of grazing; Plant traits; Sheep

Indexed keywords

CARBON; NITROGEN;

ALPINE ENVIRONMENT; FOOD SELECTION; GRAZING; GRAZING PRESSURE; HERB; HERBIVORE; HERBIVORY; PLANT COMMUNITY; SHEEP;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; ECOSYSTEM; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; NORWAY; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SHEEP; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ANIMALS; CARBON; ECOSYSTEM; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; LINEAR MODELS; NITROGEN; NORWAY; PLANTS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SHEEP; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTHERN EUROPE; NORWAY; SCANDINAVIA;

OVIS ARIES;

EID: 67649380714     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-009-1358-1     Document Type: Article

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