Diversity and beyond: plant functional identity determines herbivore performance
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Diversity and beyond: plant functional identity determines herbivore performance.
1. Recent biodiversity studies have addressed various community-level effects of biodiversity change, but the number of studies on specific biotic interactions is still rather limited. An open question in the context of plant-insect-herbivore relationships is how diversity impacts the population ecology of individual species. 2. In the present study, we explored the relationship between plant s...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Animal Ecology
سال: 2008
ISSN: 0021-8790,1365-2656
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2656.2008.01395.x