Root hemiparasites and plant diversity in experimental grassland communities

Journal of Ecology

Volumn 88, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 634-644

  Joshi, Jasmin ^a   Matthies, Diethart ^a,b   Schmid, Bernhard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Biodiversity effects; Ecosystem stability; Invasion resistance; Plant functional groups; Rhinanthus alectorolophus

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; GERMINATION; GRASSLAND; PARASITE RESISTANCE; PARASITISM; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SURVIVAL;

GRASSLAND; HEMIPARASITE; ROOT; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

RHINANTHUS ALECTOROLOPHUS;

EID: 0033845236     PISSN: 00220477     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2745.2000.00487.x     Document Type: Article

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