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Herbivory enhances positive effects of plant genotypic diversity.
Ecology letters - 1 May 2010
Parker John D, Salminen Juha-Pekka, Agrawal Anurag A
Abstract excerpt
Both plant diversity and vertebrate herbivores can impact plant fitness and ecosystem functioning, however their interactions have not been explicitly tested. We manipulated plant genotypic diversity of the native plant Oenothera biennis and monitored its survivorship and lifetime fitness with and without one of its major vertebrate consumers, white-tailed deer Odocoileus virginianus. Intense but unmanipulated...
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