Top-down impacts on creosotebush herbivores in a spatially and temporally complex environment

Ecology

Volumn 77, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 1544-1555

  Floyd, Ted ^a,b  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WILLIAMS COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Arthropod predation; Avian predation; Chihuahuan Desert, New Mexico; Creosotebush; Field experiment; Herbivorous insect populations; Larrea tridentata; Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) Site; Predator removal experiments

Indexed keywords

CREOSOTEBUSH; PREDATOR REMOVAL; TOP-DOWN CONTROL;

USA, NEW MEXICO, CHIHUAHUAN DESERT, JORNADA;

LARREA TRIDENTATA; ZYGOPHYLLACEAE;

EID: 0030441382     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/2265550     Document Type: Article

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