Native plant diversity increases herbivory to non-natives.
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SUBMITTER: Pearse IS
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4211461 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Nov
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Native plant diversity increases herbivory to non-natives.
Pearse Ian S IS Hipp Andrew L AL
Proceedings. Biological sciences 20141101 1794
There is often an inverse relationship between the diversity of a plant community and the invasibility of that community by non-native plants. Native herbivores that colonize novel plants may contribute to diversity-invasibility relationships by limiting the relative success of non-native plants. Here, we show that, in large collections of non-native oak trees at sites across the USA, non-native oaks introduced to regions with greater oak species richness accumulated greater leaf damage than in ...[more]
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