Secondary succession is influenced by belowground insect herbivory on a productive site

Oecologia

Volumn 138, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 242-252

  Schädler, Martin ^a,b   Jung, Gertraud ^a   Brandl, Roland ^a   Auge, Harald ^a  

^a HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH UFZ   (Germany)

^b PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Fretwell Oksanen hypothesis; Insect exclusion; Phytophagy; Plant community structure

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; EXCLUSION EXPERIMENT; HERBIVORY; PLANT COMMUNITY; ROOT SYSTEM; SECONDARY SUCCESSION; SOIL FAUNA; TOP-DOWN CONTROL;

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ECOSYSTEM; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; INSECT; PLANT; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SOIL;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; ECOSYSTEM; INSECTS; PLANTS; PLANTS, EDIBLE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SOIL;

ANIMALIA; CIRSIUM; CIRSIUM ARVENSE; EPILOBIUM; HEXAPODA; INSECTA; SALIX;

EID: 17544405286     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-003-1425-y     Document Type: Article

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