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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PeerJ Inc.
2014-06-01
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Online Access: | https://peerj.com/articles/442.pdf |