Plant diversity and the stability of foodwebs

Ecology Letters

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 42-46

  Haddad, Nick M ^a   Crutsinger, Gregory M ^b   Gross, Kevin ^a   Haarstad, John ^c   Tilman, David ^c  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Arthropods; Biodiversity; Consumers; Herbivores; Insects; Long term; Plant diversity; Predators; Stability; Trophic structure

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; ARTHROPODA; EMBRYOPHYTA; HEXAPODA;

EID: 78650074770     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: 14610248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2010.01548.x     Document Type: Article

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