Link strength in lake littoral food webs: Net effects of small sunfish and larval dragonflies

Journal of the North American Benthological Society

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 271-288

  Johnson, Dan M ^a   Martin, Thomas H ^b,d   Crowley, Philip H ^c   Crowder, Larry B ^b,e  

^a EAST TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^d PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Chir onomidae; Cladocera; complex interactions; direct and indirect effects of predation; enclosure exclosure experiment; fish predation; Gastropoda; interaction strength; larval dragonflypredation; Ostracoda; Tricladida

Indexed keywords

EID: 0029798325     PISSN: 08873593     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1467276     Document Type: Article

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