Large herbivore grazing and invertebrates in an alpine ecosystem

Basic and Applied Ecology

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 320-328

  Mysterud, Atle ^a   Aaserud, Ragnar ^a   Hansen, Lars Ove ^a   Åkra, Kjetil ^b   Olberg, Stefan ^c   Austrheim, Gunnar ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b Midt Troms museum ^*  (Norway)

^c BioFokus   (Norway)

^d NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

Author keywords

Beetles; Ecosystem function; Sheep; Spiders; Vectorized general linear models

Indexed keywords

ARANEAE; COLEOPTERA; INVERTEBRATA; OVIS ARIES;

EID: 77953480055     PISSN: 14391791     EISSN: 16180089     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.baae.2010.02.009     Document Type: Article

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