Insects affect relationships between plant species richness and ecosystem processes

Ecology Letters

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 237-246

  Mulder, Christa P H ^a,c   Koricheva, Julia ^a   Huss Danell, Kerstin ^a   Högberg, Peter ^a   Joshi, Jasmin ^b  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Ecosystem processes; Grasslands; Insect herbivory; Plant diversity; Relative abundance

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032789714     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1461-0248.1999.00070.x     Document Type: Article

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