Top‐down control of plant communities by consumers

Trophic interactions are widely recognized to be a fundamental force shaping plant populations and communities. However, our understanding of how different consumers (i.e. grazers, insect herbivores and pathogens) affect plant performance (i.e. biomass, diversity, reproduction and/or survival) is fr...

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Published in:	The Journal of ecology Vol. 113; no. 10; pp. 3005 - 3018
Main Authors:	Jiang, Hongying, Ke, Junsheng, Zhang, Peng, Dang, Yilin, Liu, Xiang
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	Oxford Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.10.2025
Subjects:	Biodiversity Biomass Community structure Consumers Density dependence diversity Environmental gradient Field tests Grasslands Grazing Herbivores Insects Legumes meta‐analysis Pathogens Plant biomass Plant communities plant consumers Plant diversity Plant population Plant populations Plant species Plants Population studies Reproduction Species diversity Survival top‐down control Trophic relationships
ISSN:	0022-0477, 1365-2745
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