Impact of herbivory and competition on lake ecosystem structure: underwater experimental manipulation

Abstract Two basic ecological relationships, herbivory and competition, distinctively influence terrestrial ecosystem characteristics, such as plant cover, species richness and species composition. We conducted a cage experiment under natural conditions in an aquatic ecosystem to test the impacts of...

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Main Authors: Ivana Vejříková, Lukáš Vejřík, Jan Lepš, Luboš Kočvara, Zuzana Sajdlová, Martina Čtvrtlíková, Jiří Peterka
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2018-08-01
Series:Scientific Reports
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-30598-0