Deer herbivory as an important driver of divergence of ground vegetation communities in temperate forests

Oikos

Volumn 122, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 104-110

  Suzuki, Maki ^a   Miyashita, Tadashi ^b   Kabaya, Hajime ^c   Ochiai, Keiji ^d   Asada, Masahiko ^e   Kikvidze, Zaal ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c NPO Boso Wildlife Research Party   (Japan)

^d NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM AND INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^e Chiba Biodiversity Center   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEER; DIVERGENCE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; HERBIVORY; INTERMEDIATE DISTURBANCE HYPOTHESIS; INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION; METAPOPULATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; PLANT COMMUNITY; PLANT-HERBIVORE INTERACTION; POPULATION DENSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; TEMPERATE FOREST;

CERVIDAE; UNGULATA;

EID: 84871510851     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: 16000706     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0706.2012.20431.x     Document Type: Article

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