Plant genotypic diversity predicts community structure and governs an ecosystem process

Science

Volumn 313, Issue 5789, 2006, Pages 966-968

  Crutsinger, Gregory M ^a   Collins, Michael D ^a   Fordyce, James A ^a   Gompert, Zachariah ^b   Nice, Chris C ^b   Sanders, Nathan J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^b Texas State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; ECOSYSTEMS; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GROWTH KINETICS; POPULATION STATISTICS;

ABOVEGROUND NET PRIMARY PRODUCTIVITY (ANPP); ARTHROPOD DIVERSITY; HERBIVORES; SOLIDAGO ALTISSIMA;

PLANTS (BOTANY);

ARTHROPOD; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; ECOSYSTEM STRUCTURE; GENOTYPE; HERBIVORE; NET PRIMARY PRODUCTION; PLANT; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

ARTHROPOD; ARTICLE; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; ECOSYSTEM; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; NONHUMAN; POPULATION GENETIC PARAMETERS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOLIDAGO; SOLIDAGO ALTISSIMA; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

ANIMALS; ARTHROPODS; BIODIVERSITY; ECOSYSTEM; GENOTYPE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; POPULATION DENSITY; SOLIDAGO; VARIATION (GENETICS);

ARTHROPODA; SOLIDAGO CANADENSIS VAR. SCABRA;

EID: 33747589227     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1128326     Document Type: Article

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