Herbivory differentially alters plant litter dynamics of evergreen and deciduous trees
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Samantha K. Chapman ([email protected]), Smithsonian Environmental Research Center, Edgewater, MD 21037, USA. Jennifer A. Schweitzer, School of Forestry, Northern Arizona Univ., Flagstaff, AZ 86011, USA. Present address: Dept. of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Univ. of Tennessee, TE, USA. Thomas G. Whitham, Merriam Powell Center for Environmental Research, Flagstaff, AZ 86011, USA and Dept of Biological Sciences, Northern Arizona Univ., Flagstaff, AZ 86011, USA.
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