Testing the role of biotic stress in the stress gradient hypothesis. Processes and patterns in arid rangelands

Oikos

Volumn 120, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1023-1030

  Graff, Pamela ^a   Aguiar, Martín R ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARID REGION; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; FACILITATION; FOOD QUALITY; FORAGE; GRASS; GRAZING PRESSURE; HERBIVORY; NURSE PLANT; PALATABILITY; PLANT-HERBIVORE INTERACTION; RANGELAND; REFUGE; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; TESTING METHOD; VEGETATION MAPPING; WATER AVAILABILITY;

POACEAE;

EID: 79959434690     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: 16000706     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0706.2010.19059.x     Document Type: Article

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