Diversity of plant evolutionary lineages promotes arthropod diversity

Ecology Letters

Volumn 15, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 1308-1317

  Dinnage, Russell ^a   Cadotte, Marc W ^a   Haddad, Nick M ^b   Crutsinger, Gregory M ^c   Tilman, David ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Abundance; Arthropods; Biodiversity experiments; Community ecology; Ecosystem function; Phylogenetic diversity; Trophic levels

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; ARTHROPOD; BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; FOOD WEB; HABITAT CONSERVATION; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; HABITAT LOSS; HERBIVORE; PHYLOGENETICS; SPECIES RICHNESS; TROPHIC LEVEL;

ANIMAL; ARTHROPOD; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; EVOLUTION; FOOD CHAIN; PHYLOGENY; PLANT;

ANIMALS; ARTHROPODS; BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; FOOD CHAIN; PHYLOGENY; PLANTS;

ARTHROPODA;

EID: 84867097233     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: 14610248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2012.01854.x     Document Type: Article

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