Hemiparasitic plant impacts animal and plant communities across four trophic levels
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Hemiparasitic plant impacts animal and plant communities across four trophic levels.
Understanding the impact of species on community structure is a fundamental question in ecology. There is a growing body of evidence that suggests that both subdominant species and parasites can have disproportionately large effects on other organisms. Here we report those impacts for a species that is both subdominant and parasitic, the hemiparasite Rhinanthus minor. While the impact of parasi...
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عنوان ژورنال: Ecology
سال: 2015
ISSN: 0012-9658
DOI: 10.1890/14-1244.1