Below- and above-ground vertebrate herbivory and abiotic factors alternate in shaping salt-marsh plant communities

Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology

Volumn 432-433, Issue , 2012, Pages 17-28

  Kuijper, D P J ^a,b   Bakker, J P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b MAMMAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Poland)

Author keywords

Arvicola terrestris; Atriplex littoralis; Atriplex portulacoides; Elytrigia atherica; Fossorial herbivore; Sediment input

Indexed keywords

ABOVEGROUND BIOMASS; BARRIER ISLAND; BELOWGROUND BIOMASS; CLAY SOIL; FERTILIZER APPLICATION; GRASS; GRAZING; HALOPHYTE; HERBIVORY; NITROGEN; PLANT COMMUNITY; RODENT; SALTMARSH; SEDIMENTATION; SUCCESSION; VEGETATION DYNAMICS;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; DENMARK; NORTH SEA; WADDEN SEA;

ANSER; ARVICOLA TERRESTRIS; ATRIPLEX; ATRIPLEX LITTORALIS; ATRIPLEX PORTULACOIDES; ELYTRIGIA; LEPUS; MICROTUS RICHARDSONI; MURIDAE; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 84864779517     PISSN: 00220981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jembe.2012.07.003     Document Type: Article

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