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Top-Down Control of Herbivory by Birds and Bats in the Canopy of Temperate Broad-Leaved Oaks (Quercus robur)

The intensive foraging of insectivorous birds and bats is well known to reduce the density of arboreal herbivorous arthropods but quantification of collateral leaf damage remains limited for temperate forest canopies. We conducted exclusion experiments with nets in the crowns of young and mature oak...

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Main Authors: Böhm, Stefan M., Wells, Konstans, Kalko, Elisabeth K. V.
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: Public Library of Science 2011
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3070701/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21483739
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0017857
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