Resource and top-predator regulation in the pitcher plant (Sarracenia purpurea) inquiline community

Ecology

Volumn 83, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 680-688

  Kneitel, Jamie M ^a   Miller, Thomas E ^a  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bacteria; Bottom up effects; Omnivory; Protozoans; Rotifers; Sarracenia purpurea; Species diversity; Top down effects; Trophic cascade; Wyeomyia smithii

Indexed keywords

BOTTOM-UP CONTROL; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; PHYTOTELMIC ECOSYSTEM; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TOP-DOWN CONTROL; TROPHIC CASCADE;

ACARI; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CULICIDAE; DIPTERA; FORMICIDAE; PROTOZOA; ROTIFERA; SARRACENIA; SARRACENIA PURPUREA; SARRACENIACEAE; WYEOMYIA; WYEOMYIA SMITHII;

EID: 0000021065     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/0012-9658(2002)083[0680:RATPRI]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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