Functional identity versus species richness: Herbivory resistance in plant communities

Oecologia

Volumn 163, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 707-717

  Scherber, Christoph ^a,c   Heimann, Juliane ^a   Köhler, Günter ^a   Mitschunas, Nadine ^b   Weisser, Wolfgang W ^a  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Grasshopper; Herbivory; Plant functional groups; The Jena Experiment

Indexed keywords

EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FUNCTIONAL GROUP; GRASSHOPPER; GRASSLAND; HERBIVORY; MONOCULTURE; PLANT COMMUNITY; PLANT-HERBIVORE INTERACTION; SPECIES RICHNESS; VEGETATION STRUCTURE;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; BIOMASS; CLASSIFICATION; DIET; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; GERMANY; GRASSHOPPER; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MALE; METABOLISM; NYMPH; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT; TIME; CAELIFERA; PLANT DEVELOPMENT; VETERINARY;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; BIOMASS; DIET; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; GERMANY; GRASSHOPPERS; MALE; NYMPH; PLANTS; TIME FACTORS; PLANT DEVELOPMENT;

CHORTHIPPUS PARALLELUS; POACEAE;

EID: 77953682984     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-010-1625-1     Document Type: Article

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