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Top-Down Control of Herbivory by Birds and Bats in the Canopy of Temperate Broad-Leaved Oaks (Quercus robur)

The intensive foraging of insectivorous birds and bats is well known to reduce the density of arboreal herbivorous arthropods but quantification of collateral leaf damage remains limited for temperate forest canopies. We conducted exclusion experiments with nets in the crowns of young and mature oak...

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Autores principales: Böhm, Stefan M., Wells, Konstans, Kalko, Elisabeth K. V.
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3070701/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21483739
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0017857