Productivity, intraguild predation, and population dynamics in experimental food webs

Ecology

Volumn 80, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 752-760

  Morin, Peter ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Blepharisma; Colpidium; Competition; Intraguild predation; Microcosms; Omnivory; Population dynamics; Predation; Productivity; Protists

Indexed keywords

INTERSPECIFIC INTERACTION; INTRAGUILD PREDATION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PRODUCTIVITY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BLEPHARISMA; BLEPHARISMA AMERICANUM; COLPIDIUM; COLPIDIUM STRIATUM; PROTISTA;

EID: 0032917868     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/0012-9658(1999)080[0752:PIPAPD]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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