Trophic control across a natural productivity gradient with sap-feeding herbivores

Oikos

Volumn 82, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 552-560

  Uriarte, Maria ^a,b   Schmitz, Oswald J ^a  

^a Yale School of the Environment   (United States)

^b Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL PRODUCTION; BIOMASS; HERBIVORY; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; TOP-DOWN CONTROL;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0031849537     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3546375     Document Type: Article

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