Experimental tests of trophic dynamics: Taking a closer look

Oecologia

Volumn 119, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 275-280

  Moon, Daniel C ^a   Stiling, Peter ^a   Cattell, Maria V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Organismal anonymity; Probes; Productivity; Pseudoreplication; Top down and bottom up forces

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; METHODOLOGY; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; TROPHIC STRUCTURE;

EID: 0032907724     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004420050786     Document Type: Article

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