Soft resilience: moisture-dependent lichen elasticity buffer herbivore trampling in cold alpine-tundra ecosystems
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DOI: 10.1007/s00300-020-02685-4
Abstract: Herbivores may have extensive top-down effects in open grazing ecosystems, generating vegetation changes by grazing and trampling. Trampling effects are understudied, but may be a major ecological factor. In cold alpine-Arctic ecosystems grazing and trampling… read more here.
Keywords: elasticity; lichen elasticity; lichen; cold alpine ... See more keywords