Plant species loss affects life-history traits of aphids and their parasitoids.

The consequences of plant species loss are rarely assessed in a multi-trophic context and especially effects on life-history traits of organisms at higher trophic levels have remained largely unstudied. We used a grassland biodiversity experiment and measured the effects of two components of plant d...

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Main Authors: Jana S Petermann, Christine B Müller, Christiane Roscher, Alexandra Weigelt, Wolfgang W Weisser, Bernhard Schmid
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2010-08-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC2917359?pdf=render