Environmental variation and moose Alces alces density as determinants of spatio-temporal heterogeneity in browsing

Ecography

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 601-612

  Månsson, Johan ^a  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BROWSING; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONIFEROUS TREE; DEER; FOOD AVAILABILITY; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; GRAZING PRESSURE; HABITAT SELECTION; HETEROGENEITY; PLANT-HERBIVORE INTERACTION; POPULATION DENSITY; SNOW COVER; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

ALCES ALCES; BETULA; PINUS SYLVESTRIS;

EID: 70349154693     PISSN: 09067590     EISSN: 16000587     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0587.2009.05713.x     Document Type: Article

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