Beyond the browse line: Complex cascade effects mediated by white-tailed deer

Oikos

Volumn 121, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 1749-1760

  Bressette, James W ^a,b   Beck, Harald ^a   Beauchamp, Vanessa B ^a  

^a TOWSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Army Institute of Public Health   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARBUSCULAR MYCORRHIZA; ARTHROPOD; BIOMASS; BROWSING; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; DEER; FOOD WEB; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; FUNGUS; PLANT COMMUNITY; POPULATION DENSITY; SAPLING; SHRUB; SOIL NUTRIENT; TROPHIC CASCADE;

ARBUSCULAR; ARTHROPODA; CERVIDAE; MAMMALIA; ODOCOILEUS VIRGINIANUS;

EID: 84867743458     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: 16000706     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0706.2011.20305.x     Document Type: Article

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