The impact of a locust plague on mangroves of the arid Western Australia coast
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2012
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Reef, Ruth
Ball, Marilyn
Lovelock, Catherine
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Cambridge University Press
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Mangroves generally grow in nutrient-poor environments and maintain high levels of productivity through unique adaptations for nutrient conservation (Reef et al. 2010). One such adaptation in mangroves is highly efficient resorption of limiting nutrients
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Keywords: abscission; adaptation; arid region; biological production; decomposition; disturbance; food web; growth rate; herbivory; litterfall; locust; mangrove; microbial community; nutrient cycling; organic carbon; plant-insect interaction; resorption; salinity; Austracris guttulosa; Avicennia marina; herbivory; insect-plant relations; nutrients; Orthoptera; salinity; tropics; wetlands
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Journal of Tropical Ecology
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