Effects of plant species richness on invasion dynamics, disease outbreaks, insect abundances and diversity

Ecology Letters

Volumn 2, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 286-293

  Knops, Johannes M H ^a,b   Tilman, David ^a   Haddad, Nick M ^a,c   Naeem, Shahid ^a,d   Mitchell, Charles E ^a   Haarstad, John ^a   Ritchie, Mark E ^e   Howe, Katherine M ^a,d   Reich, Peter B ^a   Siemann, Evan ^f   Groth, James ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^c NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^e UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Biological invasions; Ecosystem functioning; Insect abundance; Insect diversity; Plant diseases; Plant pathogens

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; INSECTA;

EID: 6544295369     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1461-0248.1999.00083.x     Document Type: Article

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