Herbivores safeguard plant diversity by reducing variability in dominance
Reductions in community evenness can lead to local extinctions as dominant species exclude subordinate species; however, herbivores can prevent competitive exclusion by consuming otherwise dominant plant species, thus increasing evenness. While these predictions logically result from chronic, gradua...
| Main Authors: | , , , , , , , , , , , , |
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| Format: | Artículo |
| Language: | Inglés |
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2018
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12123/2217 https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/1365-2745.12821 https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2745.12821 |
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