Using plant-animal interactions to inform tree selection in tree-based agroecosystems for enhanced biodiversity

BioScience

Volumn 66, Issue 12, 2016, Pages 1046-1056

  Peters, Valerie E ^a   Carlo, Tomás A ^b   Mello, Marco A R ^c   Rice, Robert A ^d   Tallamy, Doug W ^e   Caudill, S Amanda ^d   Fleming, Theodore H ^f  

^a EASTERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

^d SMITHSONIAN CONSERVATION BIOLOGY INSTITUTE   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^f Department of Biology   (United States)

Author keywords

Connectors; Hubs; Network theory; Phenophase length; Restoration

Indexed keywords

EID: 85015757720     PISSN: 00063568     EISSN: 15253244     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/biosci/biw140     Document Type: Review

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