Cascading effects of a highly specialized beech-aphid–fungus interaction on forest regeneration

Specialist herbivores are thought to often enhance or maintain plant diversity within ecosystems, because they prevent their host species from becoming competitively dominant. In contrast, specialist herbivores are not generally expected to have negative impacts on non-hosts. However, we describe a...

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Main Authors: Susan C. Cook-Patton, Lauren Maynard, Nathan P. Lemoine, Jessica Shue, John D. Parker
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: PeerJ Inc. 2014-06-01
Series:PeerJ
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Online Access:https://peerj.com/articles/442.pdf