Climate change disproportionately increases herbivore over plant or parasitoid biomass

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 7, 2012, Pages

  de Sassi, Claudio ^a   Tylianakis, Jason M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NITROGEN;

ARTICLE; BIOMASS; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMMUNITY ECOLOGY; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); ECOSYSTEM; GRASSLAND; HERBIVORE; NITROGEN DEPOSITION; PARASITISM; PARASITOID; PLANT; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION; WARMING;

ALTITUDE; ANIMALS; BIOMASS; CLIMATE CHANGE; ENVIRONMENT, CONTROLLED; HERBIVORY; NITROGEN; PARASITES; PLANTS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84864008387     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0040557     Document Type: Article

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