Native vertebrate herbivores facilitate native plant dominance in old fields while preventing native tree invasion - Implications for threatened species

Pacific Conservation Biology

Volumn 19, Issue 3-4, 2013, Pages 331-342

  Ingram, Janeane ^a   Kirkpatrick, Jamie B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Bennett's wallaby; European red fox; Forester kangaroo; Grazing exclosures; Marsupial lawns; Native vertebrate herbivore; Old field; Tasmanian Devil; Tasmanian Pademelon

Indexed keywords

COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); ENDANGERED SPECIES; HERBIVORE; INTRODUCED SPECIES; INVASIVENESS; OLD FIELD; PROTECTED AREA; SUCCESSION; VEGETATION INDEX; VERTEBRATE;

AUSTRALIA; MARIA ISLAND; MARIA ISLAND MARINE RESERVE; TASMANIA;

AVES; METATHERIA; SARCOPHILUS HARRISII; THYLOGALE BILLARDIERII; VERTEBRATA; VULPES;

EID: 84918549192     PISSN: 10382097     EISSN: 22044604     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/pc130331     Document Type: Article

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