A comparison of grazed and ungrazed sedge meadows in the Canadian High Arctic
The grazing optimization hypothesis predicts that net primary production (NPP) and nitrogen levels within vegetation will be highest with moderate grazing levels. In the Canadian High Arctic, muskoxen are one of two major herbivores; they prefer to graze in wet sedge meadow plant communities. To tes...
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University of British Columbia
2009
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/2429/8450 |