Reduced tuber banks of fennel pondweed due to summer grazing by waterfowl

Aquatic Botany

Volumn 94, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 24-28

  Gyimesi, Abel ^a   de Vries, Peter P ^a   de Boer, Thijs ^a   Nolet, Bart A ^a  

^a NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY NIOO KNAW   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Grazing pressure; Herbivory; Plant animal interaction; Potamogeton pectinatus; Propagule; Time staggered competition; Waterfowl

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; BODY MASS; GRAZING PRESSURE; HERBIVORY; MACROPHYTE; MOLT; MONOCOTYLEDON; PLANT-HERBIVORE INTERACTION; PROPAGULE; SUBMERGED VEGETATION; TUBER; WATERFOWL;

ANATIDAE; ANIMALIA; AVES; AYTHYA; CYGNUS; CYGNUS OLOR; FOENICULUM VULGARE; PECTINATUS; POTAMOGETON PECTINATUS; RALLIDAE;

EID: 78650215947     PISSN: 03043770     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.aquabot.2010.10.002     Document Type: Article

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