Spatial pattern of grazing affects influence of herbivores on spatial heterogeneity of plants and soils

Oecologia

Volumn 162, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 427-434

  Yoshihara, Yu ^a   Ohkuro, Toshiya ^a   Buuveibaatar, Bayarbaatar ^b   Jamsran, Undarmaa ^c   Takeuchi, Kazuhiko ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b INSTITUTE OF CHEMISTRY AND CHEMICAL TECHNOLOGY   (Mongolia)

^c MONGOLIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Mongolia)

Author keywords

Disturbance intensity; Disturbance regime; Disturbance size; Marmots; Mongolian grassland

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; GRAZING PRESSURE; HETEROGENEITY; PLANT-HERBIVORE INTERACTION; PROTECTED AREA; RODENT; SOIL NUTRIENT; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; STEPPE;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MONGOLIA; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SCIURIDAE; SOIL;

ANIMALS; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; HOMING BEHAVIOR; MARMOTA; MONGOLIA; PLANTS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SOIL;

MONGOLIA;

MARMOTA; MARMOTA SIBIRICA; SCIURIDAE;

EID: 74449093965     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-009-1481-z     Document Type: Article

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