Top-down and bottom-up forces in mammalian herbivore - vegetation systems: An essay review

Botany

Volumn 87, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 723-739

  Turkington, Roy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bottom up; Field experiments; Herbivory; Top down; Trophic cascades; Vegetation regulation; World is green

Indexed keywords

BOTTOM-UP CONTROL; FACTOR ANALYSIS; FIELD METHOD; FOOD AVAILABILITY; FOOD QUALITY; HERBIVORE; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; LIMITING FACTOR; MAMMAL; PLANT-HERBIVORE INTERACTION; TRITROPHIC INTERACTION; TROPHIC CASCADE; VEGETATION STRUCTURE;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 69949178293     PISSN: 19162804     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/B09-035     Document Type: Review

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