Above- and below-ground vertebrate herbivory may each favour a different subordinate species in an aquatic plant community

Oecologia

Volumn 162, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 199-208

  Hidding, Bert ^a   Nolet, Bart A ^a   de Boer, Thijs ^a   de Vries, Peter P ^a   Klaassen, Marcel ^a  

^a NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY NIOO KNAW   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Aquatic macrophytes; Bare patch formation; Competition colonization trade off; Tubers; Waterfowl

Indexed keywords

ANTIHERBIVORE DEFENSE; AQUATIC PLANT; COEXISTENCE; COLONIZATION; COMPETITIVE ABILITY; FISH; HERBIVORY; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; MACROPHYTE; PLANT COMMUNITY; PLANT-HERBIVORE INTERACTION; SPECIES EVENNESS; TRADE-OFF; TUBER; WATERFOWL;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; BIRD; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FISH; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POTAMOGETONACEAE; SEASON; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; BIRDS; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FISHES; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POTAMOGETONACEAE; SEASONS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

LAUWERSMEER; NETHERLANDS;

ANATIDAE; CYGNUS; PECTINATUS; POTAMOGETON PECTINATUS; POTAMOGETON PUSILLUS; TUBER (TRUFFLE); VERTEBRATA; ZANNICHELLIA PALUSTRIS;

EID: 77949725874     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-009-1450-6     Document Type: Article

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