Gastropods slow down succession and maintain diversity in cryptogam communities
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Gastropods slow down succession and maintain diversity in cryptogam communities.
Herbivore effects on diversity and succession were often studied in plants, but not in cryptogams. Besides direct herbivore effects on cryptogams, we expected indirect effects by changes in competitive interactions among cryptogams. Therefore, we conducted a long-term gastropod exclusion experiment testing for grazing effects on epiphytic cryptogam communities. We estimated the grazing damage, ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Ecology
سال: 2016
ISSN: 0012-9658
DOI: 10.1002/ecy.1498