Top-down cascade from a bitrophic predator in an old-field community

Ecology

Volumn 77, Issue 7, 1996, Pages 2219-2227

  Moran, Matthew D ^a   Rooney, Thomas P ^b   Hurd, L E ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c WASHINGTON AND LEE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Arthropod assemblages; Behavioral responses; Herbivore load; Irtraguild interactions; Mantids; Old fields; Predator load; Predators, bitrophic and generalist; Tenodera sinensis; Topdown forces; Trophic cascades

Indexed keywords

OLD FIELD; SPIDER; TOP-DOWN CONTROL; TROPHIC CASCADE;

DICTYOPTERA; MANTIDAE; TENODERA SINENSIS;

EID: 0030431939     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/2265715     Document Type: Article

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