Estimates and tests of per capita interaction strength: Diet, abundance, and impact of intertidally foraging birds

Ecological Monographs

Volumn 67, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 45-64

  Wootton, J Timothy ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Communities; Corvus caurinus; Food webs; Foraging behavior; Haematopus bachmani; Larus glaucescens; Population dynamics; Predation; Rocky intertidal; Species interactions

Indexed keywords

CORVUS CAURINUS; HAEMATOPUS BACHMANI; LARUS GLAUCESCENS; ASTEROIDEA; BIVALVIA; CIRRIPEDIA; ECHINOIDEA; GASTROPODA; LOTTIA; MYTILUS CALIFORNIANUS; MYTILUS TROSSULUS; NUCELLA; POLLICIPES POLYMERUS; PYCNOPODIA HELIANTHOIDES; SEMIBALANUS CARIOSUS; SOLASTER STIMPSONI; STRONGYLOCENTROTUS; TECTURA;

CONSUMPTION RATE; FOOD WEB MODEL; INTERTIDAL COMMUNITY; PREDATION; TROPHIC INTERACTION;

EID: 0031284513     PISSN: 00129615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/0012-9615(1997)067[0045:EATOPC]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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