Erosion of community diversity and stability by herbivore removal under warming

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 280, Issue 1757, 2013, Pages

  Post, Eric ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate change; Community stability; Exploitation; Species interactions; Species richness

Indexed keywords

BIOTIC FACTOR; CLIMATE CHANGE; EXPLOITATION; HERBIVORE; PLANT COMMUNITY; PLANT-HERBIVORE INTERACTION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS;

EID: 84874268225     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2012.2722     Document Type: Article

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