Perturbed partners: Opposite responses of plant and animal mutualist guilds to inundation disturbances

Oikos

Volumn 116, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 1299-1310

  Prinzing, Andreas ^a,b   Dauber, Jens ^c,d   Hammer, Edith C ^e,f   Hammouti, Nasera ^e   Böhning Gaese, Katrin ^e  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE RENNES 1   (France)

^c JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^e JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^f LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; ANIMAL COMMUNITY; ARTHROPOD; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; GUILD; HERB; MUTUALISM; NUTRITION; PLANT COMMUNITY; SEED DISPERSAL; SPECIES RICHNESS;

ANIMALIA; ARTHROPODA; FORMICIDAE;

EID: 34447626820     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: 16000706     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0030-1299.2007.15738.x     Document Type: Article

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