Abiotic controls of trophic cascades in a simple grassland food chain

Oikos

Volumn 77, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 495-506

  Chase, Jonathan M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOOD CHAIN; GRASSHOPPER; GRASSLAND; TROPHIC CASCADE; WOLF SPIDER;

ORTHOPTERA;

EID: 0030512858     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3545939     Document Type: Article

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