Spatial heterogeneity, not visitation bias, dominates variation in herbivory

Ecology

Volumn 84, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 2214-2221

  Bradley, Kate L ^a   Damschen, Ellen I ^b   Young, Lauren M ^a   Kuefler, Daniel ^b   Went, Sarah ^a   Wray, Galen ^a   Haddad, Nick M ^b   Knops, Johannes M H ^a   Louda, Svata M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^b NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Herbivory; Herbivory uncertainty principle; Observer effect; Plant performance; Spatial heterogeneity; Visitation effect

Indexed keywords

EXPERIMENT; HERBIVORY; HETEROGENEITY;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0344585049     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/02-3082     Document Type: Article

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