Integrating bacteria into food webs: Studies with Sarracenia purpurea inquilines

Ecology

Volumn 79, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 880-898

  Cochran Stafira, D Liane ^a,b   Von Ende, Carl N ^a  

^a NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Bacteria; Direct and indirect effects of; Food web interactions; Keystone predators; Microbial community structure; Microcosms; Pitcher plant; Predation; Protozoa; Sarracenia purpurea; Trophic cascade; Wyeomyia smithii

Indexed keywords

AQUATIC ENVIRONMENT; BACTERIAL COMMUNITY; FOOD WEB; GRAZING; TROPHIC CASCADE;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BODO; CILIOPHORA; COLPODA; CULICIDAE; CYCLIDIUM; DIPTERA; PROTOZOA; ROTIFERA; SARRACENIA PURPUREA; SARRACENIACEAE; WYEOMYIA; WYEOMYIA SMITHII;

EID: 0031818887     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/0012-9658(1998)079[0880:ibifws]2.0.co;2     Document Type: Article

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