Plant diversity alters the representation of motifs in food webs
Plant diversity affects ecosystem function in myriad ways, but the effect on food webs has received less investigation. Here, the authors use high-resolution food web data from a grassland diversity experiment to show that apparent and exploitative competition motifs increase with plant diversity.
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Main Authors: | Darren P. Giling, Anne Ebeling, Nico Eisenhauer, Sebastian T. Meyer, Christiane Roscher, Michael Rzanny, Winfried Voigt, Wolfgang W. Weisser, Jes Hines |
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Language: | EN |
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Nature Portfolio
2019
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Online Access: | https://doaj.org/article/a8c926f19c1e49c29dcbf6282ee36b0f |
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