Herbivores on a dominant understory shrub increase local plant diversity in rain forest communities

Ecology

Volumn 91, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 3707-3718

  Dyer, Lee A ^a   Letourneau, Deborah K ^b   Chavarria, Gerardo Vega ^a   Amoretti, Diego Salazar ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI ST LOUIS   (United States)

Author keywords

Apparent competition; Biodiversity; Herbivory; Janzen Connell hypothesis; Seedling mortality; Tropical rain forest

Indexed keywords

APPARENT COMPETITION; COMPLEMENTARITY; DOMINANCE; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; GENERALIST; HERBIVORY; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; MORTALITY; PATH ANALYSIS; PLANT COMMUNITY; PLANT-HERBIVORE INTERACTION; POPULATION DENSITY; RAINFOREST; SEEDLING; SHRUB; SPECIALIST; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TROPHIC INTERACTION; TROPICAL FOREST; UNDERSTORY;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ECOSYSTEM; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; INSECT; PHYSIOLOGY; PIPERACEAE; TREE;

ANIMALS; ECOSYSTEM; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; INSECTS; PIPER; TREES;

COSTA RICA;

EID: 78650354633     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/08-1634.1     Document Type: Article

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