Herbivores and nutrients control grassland plant diversity via light limitation

Nature

Volumn 508, Issue 7497, 2014, Pages 517-520

  Borer, Elizabeth T ^a   Seabloom, Eric W ^a   Gruner, Daniel S ^b   Harpole, W Stanley ^c   Hillebrand, Helmut ^d   Lind, Eric M ^a   Adler, Peter B ^e   Alberti, Juan ^f   Anderson, T Michael ^g   Bakker, Jonathan D ^h   Biederman, Lori ^c   Blumenthal, Dana ⁱ   Brown, Cynthia S ^j   Brudvig, Lars A ^k   Buckley, Yvonne M ^l,m   Cadotte, Marc ⁿ   Chu, Chengjin ^o   Cleland, Elsa E ^p   Crawley, Michael J ^q   Daleo, Pedro ^f   Damschen, Ellen I ^r   Davies, Kendi F ^s   Decrappeo, Nicole M ^t   Du, Guozhen ^o   Firn, Jennifer ^u   Hautier, Yann ^a   Heckman, Robert W ^v   Hector, Andy ^w   Hillerislambers, Janneke ^h   Iribarne, Oscar ^f   Klein, Julia A ^j   Knops, Johannes M H ^x   La Pierre, Kimberly J ^y   Leakey, Andrew D B ^z   Li, Wei ^c   MacDougall, Andrew S ^aa   McCulley, Rebecca L ^ab   Melbourne, Brett A ^s   Mitchell, Charles E ^v   Moore, Joslin L ^ac   Mortensen, Brent ^c   O'Halloran, Lydia R ^ad   Orrock, John L ^r   Pascual, Jesús ^f   Prober, Suzanne M ^ae   Pyke, David A ^t   Risch, Anita C ^af   Schuetz, Martin ^af   Smith, Melinda D ^j   Stevens, Carly J ^ag   Sullivan, Lauren L ^c   Williams, Ryan J ^c   Wragg, Peter D ^a   Wright, Justin P ^ah   Yang, Louie H ^ai   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b Bldg 142   (United States)

^c IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

^e UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f Facultad de Ciencias Naturales e Instituto M Lillo   (Argentina)

^g WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

ⁱ AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^j Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^k MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^l UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^m TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

ⁿ UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^o LANZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

^p UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^q IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^r UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^s UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^t FOREST AND RANGELAND ECOSYSTEM SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^u QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^v UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^w UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^x UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA   (United States)

^y UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^z UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^aa UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

^ab UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^ac UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^ad OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^ae CSIRO   (Australia)

^af SWISS FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE WSL   (Switzerland)

^ag LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^ah DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^ai UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BIODIVERSITY; COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); DATA SET; EUTROPHICATION; GRASSLAND; HERB; HERBIVORY; LIGHT AVAILABILITY; NUTRIENT CYCLING; PLANT; PLANT-HERBIVORE INTERACTION; SOIL NITROGEN; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

ARTICLE; CLIMATE; EUTROPHICATION; GRASSLAND; HERBIVORE; LIGHT; NONHUMAN; NUTRIENT; PLANT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE; EUTROPHICATION; GEOGRAPHY; HERBIVORY; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; INTERNATIONALITY; LIGHT; NITROGEN; PLANTS; POACEAE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84899493708     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature13144     Document Type: Article

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