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Flooded forests: Death by drowning, not herbivory
Author(s) -
White T.C.R.
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
journal of vegetation science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.1
H-Index - 115
eISSN - 1654-1103
pISSN - 1100-9233
DOI - 10.1111/j.1654-1103.2007.tb02525.x
Subject(s) - herbivore , predation , ecology , biology , armadillo , hydroelectricity , geography
. Trees on small islands formed when a new hydroelectric dam was filled are said to have been killed by leaf‐cutter ants that were no longer regulated by their armadillo predators. This top‐down hypothesis is questioned and an alternative bottom‐up hypothesis is proposed: the trees died because their roots were flooded.