Plant diversity impacts decomposition and herbivory via changes in aboveground arthropods

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 9, 2014, Pages

  Ebeling, Anne ^a   Meyer, Sebastian T ^b   Abbas, Maike ^c   Eisenhauer, Nico ^a   Hillebrand, Helmut ^c   Lange, Markus ^d   Scherber, Christoph ^e   Vogel, Anja ^a   Weigelt, Alexandra ^f   Weisser, Wolfgang W ^a,b  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOGEOCHEMISTRY   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABOVEGROUND ARTHROPOD; ARTHROPOD COMMUNITY; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; BIOMASS; CARBON NITROGEN RATIO; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECOMPOSITION; ECOSYSTEM; FOOD ANALYSIS; FOOD QUALITY; FOOD QUANTITY; GRASSLAND; HERBIVORY; NONHUMAN; PATH ANALYSIS; PLANT BIOMASS; PLANT COMMUNITY; PLANT DIVERSITY; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; PREDICTION; SPECIES RICHNESS; TROPHIC LEVEL; ANIMAL; ARTHROPOD; GERMANY; PLANT;

ARTHROPODA;

ANIMALS; ARTHROPODS; BIODIVERSITY; ECOSYSTEM; GERMANY; HERBIVORY; PLANTS;

EID: 84907185301     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0106529     Document Type: Article

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