Periodic Reporting for period 3 - BABE (Why is the world green: testing top-down control of plant-herbivore food webs by experiments with birds, bats and ants)

Our goal is to test novel aspects of the “green world hypothesis” and resolve the importance of top-down control and how varies with forest diversity and productivity along a latitudinal gradient, and how the key predators, birds, bats and ants, contribute to the top-down...