Animal ecosystem engineers modulate the diversity-invasibility relationship

PLoS ONE

Volumn 3, Issue 10, 2008, Pages

  Eisenhauer, Nico ^a   Milcu, Alexandru ^b   Sabais, Alexander C W ^a   Scheu, Stefan ^a  

^a DARMSTADT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL ECOSYSTEM; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; BIOENGINEERING; CONTROLLED STUDY; EARTHWORM; ECOSYSTEM; GRASSLAND; HERB; NONHUMAN; PLANT ANIMAL INTERACTION; PLANT COMMUNITY; PLANT DENSITY; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; SEED DISPERSAL; SOIL FAUNA; ANIMAL; ANNELID WORM; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; PLANT; PLANT SEED; POACEAE;

ANIMALIA; POACEAE;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; ECOSYSTEM; OLIGOCHAETA; PLANTS; POACEAE; SEEDS;

EID: 55849151336     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0003489     Document Type: Article

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