Diversity protects plant communities against generalist molluscan herbivores

Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 2, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 2460-2473

  Fabian, Yvonne ^a   Sandau, Nadine ^a   Bruggisser, Odile T ^a   Kehrli, Patrik ^a,b   Aebi, Alexandre ^a,c   Rohr, Rudolf P ^a,d   Naisbit, Russell E ^a   Bersier, Louis Félix ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FRIBOURG   (Switzerland)

^b AGROSCOPE   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEUCHÂTEL   (Switzerland)

^d DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION BIOLOGY   (Spain)

Author keywords

Agroecosystem; Biodiversity; Ecosystem functioning; Gastropoda; Herbivory; Plant composition; Resource concentration hypothesis

Indexed keywords

EID: 84870464265     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20457758     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ece3.359     Document Type: Article

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