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SUBMITTER: Muiruri EW
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6590441 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Muiruri Evalyne W EW Barantal Sandra S Iason Glenn R GR Salminen Juha-Pekka JP Perez-Fernandez Estefania E Koricheva Julia J
The New phytologist 20190111 4
Insect herbivore damage and abundance are often reduced in diverse plant stands. However, few studies have explored whether this phenomenon is a result of plant diversity effects on host plant traits. We explored indirect effects of tree species diversity on herbivory via changes in leaf traits in a long-term forest diversity experiment in Finland. We measured 16 leaf traits and leaf damage by four insect guilds (chewers, gall formers, leaf miners and rollers) on silver birch (Betula pendula) tr ...[more]