Bottom–up and top–down effects on plant communities: nutrients limit productivity, but insects determine diversity and composition
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L. Souza ([email protected]), Oklahoma Biological Survey and Dept of Microbiology and Plant Biology, 111 E. Chesapeake St., Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK 73019, USA. – T. J. Zelikova, Dept of Botany and Biodiversity Inst., Berry Center 231, 1000 E. University Ave., Univ. of Wyoming, Laramie, WY 82071, USA. – N. J. Sanders, Center for Macroecology, Evolution and Climate, Natural History Museum of Denmark, Univ. of Copenhagen, DK-2100 Copenhagen, Denmark.
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