Tree phylogenetic diversity promotes host–parasitoid interactions
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Tree phylogenetic diversity promotes host-parasitoid interactions.
Evidence from grassland experiments suggests that a plant community's phylogenetic diversity (PD) is a strong predictor of ecosystem processes, even stronger than species richness per se This has, however, never been extended to species-rich forests and host-parasitoid interactions. We used cavity-nesting Hymenoptera and their parasitoids collected in a subtropical forest as a model system to t...
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عنوان ژورنال: Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
سال: 2016
ISSN: 0962-8452,1471-2954
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2016.0275