Predicting invertebrate herbivory from plant traits: Evidence from 51 grassland species in experimental monocultures

Ecology

Volumn 93, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 2674-2682

  Loranger, Jessy ^a,b   Meyer, Sebastian T ^a,d   Shipley, Bill ^b   Kattge, Jens ^c   Loranger, Hannah ^a,e   Roscher, Christiane ^c,f   Weisser, Wolfgang W ^a,d  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE SHERBROOKE   (Canada)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOGEOCHEMISTRY   (Germany)

^d TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

^f HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH UFZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

Germany; Herbivore related traits; Invertebrate herbivory; Jena Experiment; Modeling; Monoculture; Morphology; Phenology; Physiology; Plant trait; Prediction; Thuringia

Indexed keywords

EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; GRASSLAND; HERB; INVERTEBRATE; MONOCULTURE; MORPHOLOGY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PHENOLOGY; PLANT COMMUNITY; PLANT-HERBIVORE INTERACTION; PREDICTION;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; ECOSYSTEM; HERBIVORY; INVERTEBRATE; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT; PLANT PHYSIOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; ECOSYSTEM; HERBIVORY; INVERTEBRATES; PLANT PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; PLANTS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

GERMANY; JENA; THURINGIA;

COLEOPTERA; INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 84871766501     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/12-0328.1     Document Type: Article

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