Pinus halepensis invasion in mountain pampean grassland: Effects of feral horses grazing on seedling establishment

Environmental Research

Volumn 111, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 953-959

  de Villalobos, A E ^a,b   Zalba, S M ^a,b   Pelaez D V ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DEL SUR   (Argentina)

^b Facultad de Ciencias Naturales e Instituto M Lillo   (Argentina)

^c Centro Científico y Tecnológico Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Biotic resistance; Feral ungulate grazing; Invasional meltdown; Natural grassland composition; Pine invasion

Indexed keywords

CONIFEROUS TREE; DEFOLIATION; FERAL ORGANISM; GRASSLAND; GRAZING PRESSURE; GROWTH RATE; HORSE; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; MOUNTAIN REGION; PLANT COMMUNITY; SEEDLING ESTABLISHMENT; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES EVENNESS; SPECIES RICHNESS; SURVIVAL;

ARGENTINA; ARTICLE; BIOMASS; DEFOLIATION; FERAL ANIMAL; FIELD EXPERIMENT; GRASSLAND; GRAZING; HORSE; NONHUMAN; PINE; PINUS HALEPENSIS; PLANT COMMUNITY; PLANT GROWTH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEEDLING; SOIL COMPACTION; SPECIES INVASION; SURVIVAL; VEGETATION;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, WILD; ARGENTINA; BIODIVERSITY; ECOSYSTEM; HORSES; INTRODUCED SPECIES; PINUS; POACEAE; SEEDLING; SOIL;

ARGENTINA;

EQUIDAE; PINUS HALEPENSIS; POACEAE; UNGULATA;

EID: 80053251223     PISSN: 00139351     EISSN: 10960953     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envres.2011.03.011     Document Type: Article

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