Tree diversity alters the structure of a tri-trophic network in a biodiversity experiment

Oikos

Volumn 124, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 827-834

  Staab, Michael ^a,b   Blüthgen, Nico ^c   Klein, Alexandra Maria ^a,b  

^a LEUPHANA UNIVERSITY OF LÜNEBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^c DARMSTADT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANT; ANTAGONISM; ENVIRONMENTAL RESPONSE; FUNCTIONAL RESPONSE; GENERALIST; GRASSLAND; HOST PLANT; HOST SPECIFICITY; MUTUALISM; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TREE; TROPHIC STRUCTURE;

CHINA;

CUCUMIS MELO VAR. INODORUS; FORMICIDAE; HEMIPTERA;

EID: 84928415661     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: 16000706     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/oik.01723     Document Type: Article

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