Relationships between abiotic environment, plant functional traits, and animal body size at Mount Kilimanjaro, Tanzania.

Relationships between abiotic environment, plant functional traits, and animal body size at Mount Kilimanjaro, Tanzania.

The effect-response framework states that plant functional traits link the abiotic environment to ecosystem functioning. One ecosystem property is the body size of the animals living in the system, which is assumed to depend on temperature or resource availability, among others. For primary consumer...

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Main Authors: David Schellenberger Costa, Alice Classen, Stefan Ferger, Maria Helbig-Bonitz, Marcell Peters, Katrin Böhning-Gaese, Ingolf Steffan-Dewenter, Michael Kleyer
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2017-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5358856?pdf=render

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