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Costs and benefits of omnivore-mediated plant protection: effects of plant-feeding on Salix growth more detrimental than expected

Predators can decrease herbivore damage to plants, and this is often assumed to be beneficial to plant growth/reproduction without actual quantification. Moreover, previous studies have been biased towards strict carnivores and neglected the role of omnivorous predators in prey-suppression. Here, we...

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Autores principales: Puentes, Adriana, Björkman, Christer
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5487851/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28509951
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00442-017-3878-4