Unpalatable plants protect neighbors from grazing and increase plant community diversity

Ecology

Volumn 86, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 1856-1862

  Callaway, Ragan M ^a   Kikodze, David ^b   Chiboshvili, Marina ^b   Khetsuriani, Liana ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (Georgia)

Author keywords

Caucasus; Cirsium obalatum; Competition; Diversity; Exclosure; Facilitation; Herbivory; Increaser; Indirect interaction; Plant community; Rangeland; Veratrum lobelianum

Indexed keywords

FACILITATION; HERBIVORY; INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION; PALATABILITY; PLANT COMMUNITY; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

ASIA; CAUCASUS; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; GEORGIA (REPUBLIC); WEST ASIA; WORLD;

ANTHOXANTHUM ODORATUM; CIRSIUM; LUZULA; PHLEUM ALPINUM; PHLEUM PRATENSE; VERATRUM; VERATRUM LOBELIANUM;

EID: 21744462139     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/04-0784     Document Type: Article

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