Plant Trait Assembly Affects Superiority of Grazer's Foraging Strategies in Species-Rich Grasslands

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 7, 2013, Pages

  Mládek, Jan ^a   Mládková, Pavla ^b   Hejcmanová, Pavla ^b   Dvorský, Miroslav ^a   Pavlu, Vilém ^b,c   De Bello, Francesco ^d   Duchoslav, Martin ^a   Hejcman, Michal ^b,c   Pakeman, Robin J ^e  

^a PALACKÝ UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^b CZECH UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES PRAGUE   (Czech Republic)

^c CROP RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Czech Republic)

^d INSTITUTE OF MATHEMATICS   (Czech Republic)

^e SCOTTISH CROP RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BIOMASS; CANOPY; DEFOLIATION; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; GRASSLAND; GRAZING; HABITAT QUALITY; LEAF AREA; LEGUME; NONHUMAN; OVIS ARIES; PLANT ANIMAL INTERACTION; PLANT COMMUNITY; PLANT PHYSIOLOGY; PREDICTION; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT; SHEEP; SPECIES RICHNESS;

ANIMALS; BIOMASS; DIET; ECOSYSTEM; HERBIVORY; LINEAR MODELS; POACEAE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT, HERITABLE; SHEEP; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84880815207     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0069800     Document Type: Article

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