What goes up must come down? Nutrient addition and predation pressure on oak herbivores

Ecology

Volumn 81, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 1588-1600

  Forkner, Rebecca E ^a,b   Hunter, Mark D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Insect herbivores; Nutrient addition; Oak herbivore community; Plant quality; Population density; Predation; Quercus prinus; Quercus rubra; Resource limitation; Top down vs. bottom up forces

Indexed keywords

BOTTOM-UP CONTROL; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; NUTRIENT ENRICHMENT; PLANT-HERBIVORE INTERACTION; PREDATION; TOP-DOWN CONTROL;

QUERCUS PRINUS; QUERCUS RUBRA;

EID: 0033936930     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/0012-9658(2000)081[1588:WGUMCD]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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