Summer grazing by voles and lemmings upon subarctic snow‐bed and tall herb meadow vegetation – an enclosure experiment

• Published in: Ecography
• Main Author: Moen, Jon
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 1990
• Subjects: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics; Finnmarksvidda; Norway; Lemmus lemmus; Northern Norway; Subarctic
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1600-0587.1990.tb00624.x; https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1111%2Fj.1600-0587.1990.tb00624.x; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/j.1600-0587.1990.tb00624.x

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