Interactions between local climate and grazing determine the population dynamics of the small herb viola biflora

Oecologia

Volumn 163, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 921-933

  Evju, Marianne ^a,b   Halvorsen, Rune ^a   Rydgren, Knut ^c   Austrheim, Gunnar ^d   Mysterud, Atle ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE FOR NATURE RESEARCH   (Norway)

^c WESTERN NORWAY UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Norway)

^d NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

Author keywords

Avoidance; Climate; Field experiment; Grazing effects; Matrix models

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL VARIATION; AVOIDANCE REACTION; CLIMATE CHANGE; FIELDWORK; GRAZING; GROWTH RATE; HERB; HERBIVORE; INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION; LIGHT AVAILABILITY; NUMERICAL MODEL; PERENNIAL PLANT; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RODENT; SHEEP; SURVIVAL; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CLIMATE; ECOSYSTEM; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; NORWAY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SHEEP; VIOLACEAE; VIOLA;

ANIMALS; CLIMATE; ECOSYSTEM; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; NORWAY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SHEEP; VIOLA;

INVERTEBRATA; OVIS ARIES; RODENTIA; VERTEBRATA; VIOLA BIFLORA; VIOLACEAE;

EID: 77954535735     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-010-1637-x     Document Type: Article

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