Large grazers modify effects of aboveground-belowground interactions on small-scale plant community composition

Oecologia

Volumn 168, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 511-518

  Veen, G F ^a,b   Geuverink, Elzemiek ^a   Olff, Han ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY NIOO KNAW   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Elytrigia atherica; Festuca rubra; Herbivore selectivity; Plant community heterogeneity; Plant herbivore interactions

Indexed keywords

ANT; CATTLE; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; GRASS; GRAZING PRESSURE; HERBIVORE; HETEROGENEITY; LAGOMORPH; MEADOW; PHYTOMASS; PLANT COMMUNITY; PLANT-HERBIVORE INTERACTION; SOIL-VEGETATION INTERACTION; SPATIAL ANALYSIS;

ANIMAL; ANT; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; BODY SIZE; CATTLE; ECOSYSTEM; HARE; HERBIVORY; HISTOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; POACEAE; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

ANIMALS; ANTS; BIODIVERSITY; BODY SIZE; CATTLE; ECOSYSTEM; HARES; HERBIVORY; POACEAE; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

BOS; BOS TAURUS; ELYTRIGIA; FESTUCA RUBRA; FORMICIDAE; LASIUS FLAVUS; LEPUS; LEPUS CAPENSIS; LEPUS EUROPAEUS; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 84860423672     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-011-2093-y     Document Type: Article

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