Ungulate herbivores promote beta diversity and drive stochastic plant community assembly by selective defoliation and trampling: From a four‐year simulation experiment - Guo, Tongtian; Guo, Meiqi; Pang, Yue; Sun, Xiangyun; Ryo, Masahiro; Liu, Nan; Zhang, Yingjun (The Journal of ecology, 2024)
Keywords: Assembly; Biodiversity; Biodiversity loss; China; Coexistence; community assembly; Defoliation; Density; Dominance; Ecological function; Excreta; excreta return; Feeding behavior; Feeding preferences; field experimentation; Foraging; Foraging behavior; grassland; Grassland management; Grasslands; Herbivores; homogenization; interspecific competition; Plant communities; Plants; plant–herbivore interactions; selective defoliation; Shape effects; soil; Soil properties; species; species diversity; stochastic and deterministic processes; Stochastic models; Stochastic processes; Stochasticity; Trampling; ungulate herbivores; Ungulates; China