Plant diversity impacts decomposition and herbivory via changes in aboveground arthropods.

Loss of plant diversity influences essential ecosystem processes as aboveground productivity, and can have cascading effects on the arthropod communities in adjacent trophic levels. However, few studies have examined how those changes in arthropod communities can have additional impacts on ecosystem...

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Main Authors: Anne Ebeling, Sebastian T Meyer, Maike Abbas, Nico Eisenhauer, Helmut Hillebrand, Markus Lange, Christoph Scherber, Anja Vogel, Alexandra Weigelt, Wolfgang W Weisser
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4165753?pdf=render

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