First results from an experiment excluding three sizes classes of herbivores from tundra vegetation in southern Yamal, Russia

• Main Authors: Baubin, Capucine, Ehrich, Dorothée, Ravolainen, Virve, (Abdulmanova), Svetlana Sokovina, Ektova, Svetlana, Sokolova, Natalya, Ims, Rolf A., Sokolov, Aleksandr
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Masaryk Univerzity 2016
• Subjects: plant-herbivore relationship; exclosures; point intercept method; Yamal; Arctic; Yamal Peninsula; Tundra
• Online Access: http://journals.muni.cz/CPR/article/view/12892

Plant-herbivore relationships are important for the functioning of tundra ecosystems. Here, we report the first results from an exclosure experiment that, something very few studies have done, separated the impact of three sizes of herbivores (small, medium and large) on nine functional groups of pl...