Plant and arthropod community sensitivity to rainfall manipulation but not nitrogen enrichment in a successional grassland ecosystem

Oecologia

Volumn 176, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 1173-1185

  Lee, Mark A ^a,b   Manning, Pete ^a,c   Walker, Catherine S ^a   Power, Sally A ^a,d  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b SCOTTISH AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^d WESTERN SYDNEY UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Climate change; Drought; Ecosystem functioning; Nitrogen addition

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BIODIVERSITY; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; ECOSYSTEM SERVICE; FORAGE; GLOBAL CHANGE; GRASSLAND; INSECT; LIVESTOCK; NITROGEN; NUTRIENT ENRICHMENT; PHYTOMASS; PLANT COMMUNITY; RAINFALL;

ENGLAND; UNITED KINGDOM;

ARANEAE; ARTHROPODA; AUCHENORRHYNCHA;

FERTILIZER; NITROGEN; PHOSPHORUS; RAIN; SOIL;

ANIMAL; ARTHROPOD; BIODIVERSITY; BIOMASS; CLIMATE; CLIMATE CHANGE; GRASSLAND; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HERBIVORY; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; POACEAE; SEASON; SOIL; UNITED KINGDOM;

ANIMALS; ARTHROPODS; BIODIVERSITY; BIOMASS; CLIMATE; CLIMATE CHANGE; ENGLAND; FERTILIZERS; GRASSLAND; HERBIVORY; NITROGEN; PHOSPHORUS; POACEAE; RAIN; SEASONS; SOIL;

EID: 84920180966     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: 14321939     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-014-3077-5     Document Type: Article

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