Species richness and species identity effects on occurrence of foliar fungal pathogens in a tree diversity experiment

Ecosphere

Volumn 4, Issue 7, 2013, Pages

  Hantsch, Lydia ^a   Braun, Uwe ^a   Scherer Lorenzen, Michael ^b   Bruelheide, Helge ^a,c  

^a MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^c GERMAN CENTRE FOR INTEGRATIVE BIODIVERSITY RESEARCH IDIV HALLE JENA LEIPZIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Biodiversity and ecosystem functioning; BIOTREE experiment; Disease dilution effect; Ecosystem processes; Erysiphales; Fagus sylvatica; Local neighborhood; Quercus; Shannon diversity; Tree species identity effects; Tree species richness effects

Indexed keywords

EID: 84892471548     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21508925     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/ES13-00103.1     Document Type: Article

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