The consequences of changing the top predator in a food web: A comparative experimental approach

Ecological Monographs

Volumn 68, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 1-23

  McPeek, Mark A ^a  

^a Dartmouth College   (United States)

Author keywords

Coexistence; Community structure; Density dependence; Enallagma; Food limitation; Food web; Ischnura; Odonata; Predation; Resource competition; Trade offs; Trophic structure

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY RESPONSE; FOOD WEB; LAKE; PREDATOR; REMOVAL EXPERIMENT; TROPHIC CASCADE;

AESHNA; AESHNIDAE; ANAX; ANISOPTERA (DRAGONFLIES); BASIAESCHNA; COENAGRIONIDAE; ENALLAGMA; EPITHECA; ISCHNURA; ODONATA; ZYGOPTERA;

EID: 0031665103     PISSN: 00129615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/0012-9615(1998)068[0001:TCOCTT]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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