Estimating the distribution of forage mass for ungulates from vegetation plots in Bavarian forest national park

Tuexenia

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 53-70

  Ewald, Jörg ^a   Braun, Luisa ^b   Zeppenfeld, Thorsten ^c   Jehl, Hans ^d   Heurich, Marco ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES WEIHENSTEPHAN TRIESDORF   (Germany)

^b Georg August Universität Göttingen Fakultät für Geowissenschaften und Geographie Abteilung Landschaftsökologie ^*  (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^d BAVARIAN FOREST NATIONAL PARK   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bioelement content; Deer browsing; Herbaceous understorey; Phytocalc model; Plant bio mass

Indexed keywords

EID: 84907276447     PISSN: 0722494X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.14471/2014.34.006     Document Type: Article

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