Top-down control of herbivory by birds and bats in the canopy of temperate broad-leaved oaks (Quercus robur)

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2011, Pages

  Böhm, Stefan M ^a   Wells, Konstans ^a,b   Kalko, Elisabeth K V ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

^b BIODIVERSITY AND CLIMATE RESEARCH CENTRE BIK F   (Germany)

^c SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTHROPOD; ARTICLE; BAT; BIRD; CONTROLLED STUDY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GERMANY; HERBIVORY; LEAF DAMAGE; NONHUMAN; OAK; PLANT AGE; PLANT DENSITY; PREDATION; QUERCUS ROBUR; SPECIES RICHNESS; TEMPERATE DECIDUOUS FOREST; VEGETATION; ANIMAL; BIODIVERSITY; EATING; HISTOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT LEAF;

ARTHROPODA; AVES; QUERCUS; QUERCUS ROBUR; VERTEBRATA;

ANIMALS; ARTHROPODS; BIODIVERSITY; BIRDS; CHIROPTERA; EATING; PLANT LEAVES; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; QUERCUS;

EID: 79953713729     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0017857     Document Type: Article

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