The effects of productivity, herbivory, and plant species turnover in grassland food webs

Ecology

Volumn 81, Issue 9, 2000, Pages 2485-2497

  Chase, Jonathan M ^a   Leibold, Mathew A ^a   Downing, Amy L ^a   Shurin, Jonathan B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Compositional turnover; Consumer control; Food web; Grasslands; Herbivore exclosure; Herbivory; Heterogeneous food web models; Plant defense; Primary productivity; Resource control

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; FOOD WEB; GRASSLAND; HERBIVORY; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; TURNOVER;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0033863537     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/0012-9658(2000)081[2485:TEOPHA]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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