Piecewise disassembly of a large-herbivore community across a rainfall gradient: the UHURU experiment.

Large mammalian herbivores (LMH) strongly influence plant communities, and these effects can propagate indirectly throughout food webs. Most existing large-scale manipulations of LMH presence/absence consist of a single exclusion treatment, and few are replicated across environmental gradients. Thus...

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Main Authors: Jacob R Goheen, Todd M Palmer, Grace K Charles, Kristofer M Helgen, Stephen N Kinyua, Janet E Maclean, Benjamin L Turner, Hillary S Young, Robert M Pringle
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3566220?pdf=render