Drought at erosion edges selects for a 'hidden' keystone species

Plant Ecology and Diversity

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 303-311

  Caprez, Riccarda ^a   Spehn, Eva ^a   Nakhutsrishvili, George ^b   Körner, Christian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b ILIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (Georgia)

Author keywords

Central Caucasus; drought resistance; Festuca valesiaca; gully erosion; insurance effect; pasture; slope stability

Indexed keywords

EID: 84864698167     PISSN: 17550874     EISSN: 17551668     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17550874.2011.600343     Document Type: Article

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