Herbivory and plant tolerance: Experimental tests of alternative hypotheses involving non-substitutable resources

Oikos

Volumn 120, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 119-127

  Bagchi, Sumanta ^a,b   Ritchie, Mark E ^a  

^a SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATURE CONSERVATION FOUNDATION   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIPPING; DEFOLIATION; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; FERTILIZER; GRAZING; GROWTH RATE; HERBIVORY; IRRIGATION; NUTRIENT LIMITATION; PLANT COMMUNITY; RESOURCE AVAILABILITY; RESOURCE SCARCITY; ROOT-SHOOT RATIO;

EID: 78650193504     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: 16000706     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0706.2010.18932.x     Document Type: Article

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