The effects of salinity and nutrients on a tritrophic salt-marsh system

Ecology

Volumn 83, Issue 9, 2002, Pages 2465-2476

  Moon, Daniel C ^a   Stiling, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Asphondylia borrichiae; Borrichia frutescens; Bottom up; Fertilization; Gall midge; Nitrogen; Parasitoids; Plant quality; Salt marsh (Florida, USA); Salt stress; Top down

Indexed keywords

BOTTOM-UP APPROACH; HERBIVORE; NUTRIENT AVAILABILITY; PARASITOID; PLANT-HERBIVORE INTERACTION; SALINITY; SALTMARSH; TOP-DOWN APPROACH;

ASPHONDYLIA; ASPHONDYLIA BORRICHIAE; BORRICHIA; BORRICHIA FRUTESCENS; CECIDOMYIIDAE; CHIRONOMUS THUMMI; HYMENOPTERA;

EID: 0003317329     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/0012-9658(2002)083[2465:TEOSAN]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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