Bottom-up forces mediate natural-enemy impact in a phytophagous insect community

Ecology

Volumn 83, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 1443-1458

  Denno, Robert F ^a   Gratton, Claudio ^a   Peterson, Merrill A ^b   Langellotto, Gail A ^a   Finke, Deborah L ^a   Huberty, Andrea F ^a  

^a Bldg 142   (United States)

^b WESTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bottom up vs. top down impact; Habitat complexity; Intertidal wetlands; Intraguild predation; Multitrophic interactions; Phytophagous insect community; Plant nutrition; Planthopper; Prokelisia spp.; Spartina alterniflora; Trophic cascades; Vegetation structure

Indexed keywords

BOTTOM-UP CONTROL; NUTRITION; PLANT-HERBIVORE INTERACTION; PLANTHOPPER; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; SALTMARSH; TROPHIC INTERACTION;

ANIMALIA; ARANEAE; ARCHAEORRHYNCHA; CANIS; DELPHACIDAE; HEMIPTERA; HOMOPTERA; INSECTA; INVERTEBRATA; LYCOSIDAE; PROKELISIA; PROKELISIA DOLUS; PROKELISIA MARGINATA; SPARTINA; SPARTINA ALTERNIFLORA;

EID: 0000335482     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/0012-9658(2002)083[1443:BUFMNE]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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