Ungulate preference for burned patches reveals strength: Of fire-grazing interaction

Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 132-144

  Allred, Brady W ^a   Fuhlendorf, Samuel D ^a   Engle, David M ^a   Elmore, R Dwayne ^a  

^a OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Behavior; Conservation; Disturbance; Grassland; Heterogeneity; Pyric herbivory; Tallgrass prairie

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; UNGULATA;

EID: 84888068415     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20457758     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ece3.12     Document Type: Article

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