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Herbivores and nutrients control grassland plant diversity via light limitation
- Borer, Elizabeth T;
- Seabloom, Eric W;
- Gruner, Daniel S;
- Harpole, W Stanley;
- Hillebrand, Helmut;
- Lind, Eric M;
- Adler, Peter B;
- Alberti, Juan;
- Anderson, T Michael;
- Bakker, Jonathan D;
- Biederman, Lori;
- Blumenthal, Dana;
- Brown, Cynthia S;
- Brudvig, Lars A;
- Buckley, Yvonne M;
- Cadotte, Marc;
- Chu, Chengjin;
- Cleland, Elsa E;
- Crawley, Michael J;
- Daleo, Pedro;
- Damschen, Ellen I;
- Davies, Kendi F;
- DeCrappeo, Nicole M;
- Du, Guozhen;
- Firn, Jennifer;
- Hautier, Yann;
- Heckman, Robert W;
- Hector, Andy;
- HilleRisLambers, Janneke;
- Iribarne, Oscar;
- Klein, Julia A;
- Knops, Johannes MH;
- La Pierre, Kimberly J;
- Leakey, Andrew DB;
- Li, Wei;
- MacDougall, Andrew S;
- McCulley, Rebecca L;
- Melbourne, Brett A;
- Mitchell, Charles E;
- Moore, Joslin L;
- Mortensen, Brent;
- O'Halloran, Lydia R;
- Orrock, John L;
- Pascual, Jesús;
- Prober, Suzanne M;
- Pyke, David A;
- Risch, Anita C;
- Schuetz, Martin;
- Smith, Melinda D;
- Stevens, Carly J;
- Sullivan, Lauren L;
- Williams, Ryan J;
- Wragg, Peter D;
- Wright, Justin P;
- Yang, Louie H
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https://doi.org/10.1038/nature13144Abstract
Experimental data collected from 40 grasslands on 6 continents show that nutrients and herbivores can serve as counteracting forces to control local plant diversity; nutrient addition reduces local diversity through light limitation, and herbivory rescues diversity at sites where it alleviates light limitation.
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