Counterbalancing effects of competition for resources and facilitation against grazing in alpine snowbed communities

Oikos

Volumn 119, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 1571-1580

  Schöb, Christian ^a,b   Kammer, Peter M ^b   Kikvidze, Zaal ^c   Choler, Philippe ^d   von Felten, Stefanie ^e   Veit, Heinz ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^d UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPINE ENVIRONMENT; BIOMASS; FACILITATION; GRAZING; GROWING SEASON; HERBIVORY; LIMITING FACTOR; ONTOGENY; PLANT; PLANT COMMUNITY; SNOWMELT; SNOWPACK; SURVIVAL;

EID: 77956637133     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: 16000706     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0706.2010.18288.x     Document Type: Article

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