Plant traits affecting herbivory on tree recruits in highly diverse subtropical forests

Ecology Letters

Volumn 15, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 732-739

  Schuldt, Andreas ^a   Bruelheide, Helge ^b   Durka, Walter ^c   Eichenberg, David ^b   Fischer, Markus ^d   Kröber, Wenzel ^b   Härdtle, Werner ^a   Ma, Keping ^e   Michalski, Stefan G ^c   Palm, Wolf Ulrich ^a   Schmid, Bernhard ^f   Welk, Erik ^b   Zhou, Hongzhang ^g   Assmann, Thorsten ^a  

^a LEUPHANA UNIVERSITY OF LÜNEBURG   (Germany)

^b MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

^c HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH UFZ   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^e INSTITUTE OF BOTANY   (China)

^f UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^g INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

BEF China; Ecosystem functioning; Gutianshan National Nature Reserve; Latitudinal range; Phenolics; Phytochemical diversity; Plant defence; Plant insect interaction; Species richness; Tannins

Indexed keywords

BIOGEOGRAPHY; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; FUNCTIONAL MORPHOLOGY; GEOGRAPHICAL REGION; HERBIVORY; LATITUDE; LEAF MORPHOLOGY; NICHE; PHENOLIC COMPOUND; PHYLOGENETICS; PLANT DEFENSE; PLANT-HERBIVORE INTERACTION; PLANT-INSECT INTERACTION; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SHRUB; SPECIES RICHNESS; SUBTROPICAL REGION; TANNIN;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; CHEMISTRY; CHINA; CLIMATE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; HERBIVORY; INSECT; PLANT LEAF; POPULATION DENSITY; TREE;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; CHINA; CLIMATE; HERBIVORY; INSECTS; PLANT LEAVES; POPULATION DENSITY; TREES;

CHINA; GUTIAN MOUNTAIN NATURE RESERVE; ZHEJIANG;

HEXAPODA;

EID: 84862132278     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: 14610248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2012.01792.x     Document Type: Article

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