Lizards reduce spider species richness by excluding rare species

Ecology

Volumn 79, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 503-516

  Spiller, David A ^a   Schoener, Thomas W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Direct effects; Indirect effects; Lizards; Local extinction; Predation; Prey communities; Species diversity; Species richness; Spiders

Indexed keywords

EXCLUSION EXPERIMENT; LIZARD; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; SPECIES RICHNESS; SPIDER;

ANIMALIA; ARANEAE; ARANEIDAE; ARGIOPE ARGENTATA; METEPEIRA; METEPEIRA DATONA; SQUAMATA;

EID: 0031857027     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/0012-9658(1998)079[0503:LRSSRB]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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