Predator diversity and abundance provide little support for the enemies hypothesis in forests of high tree diversity.

Predatory arthropods can exert strong top-down control on ecosystem functions. However, despite extensive theory and experimental manipulations of predator diversity, our knowledge about relationships between plant and predator diversity--and thus information on the relevance of experimental finding...

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Main Authors: Andreas Schuldt, Sabine Both, Helge Bruelheide, Werner Härdtle, Bernhard Schmid, Hongzhang Zhou, Thorsten Assmann
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2011-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmid/21829551/?tool=EBI