Algal defense, grazers, and their interactions in aquatic trophic cascades

Acta Oecologica

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 331-337

  Agrawal, Anurag A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Aquatic trophic cascades; Community dynamics; Cost of defense; Daphnia; Defense theory; Food webs; Grazing; Top down

Indexed keywords

ALGA; ANTIHERBIVORE DEFENSE; FRESHWATER ECOSYSTEM; GRAZING; TROPHIC CASCADE; ZOOPLANKTON;

DAPHNIA;

EID: 0032124240     PISSN: 1146609X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1146-609X(98)80037-4     Document Type: Article

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