Top-down and bottom-up consequences of unchecked ungulate browsing on plant and animal diversity in temperate forests: lessons from a deer introduction

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  2010

• Venue

  Biological Invasions

• Publication date

  2010-02-01

• Fields of study

  Biology, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1007/s10530-009-9628-8
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