Tree-shrub associations in grazed woodlands: First rodents, then cattle?

Plant Ecology

Volumn 212, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 483-493

  Smit, Christian ^a,b   Verwijmeren, Mart ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Associational resistance; Directed seed dispersal; Spiny shrubs; Tree recruitment; Wood mouse; Wood pasture

Indexed keywords

CATTLE; GRASSLAND; MICROHABITAT; RODENT; SAPLING; SEED DISPERSAL; SHRUB;

NETHERLANDS;

BOS; MUS; RODENTIA;

EID: 79952036753     PISSN: 13850237     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11258-010-9839-1     Document Type: Article

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