The impact of salamander predation on Collembola abundance

Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington

Volumn 102, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 308-312

  Rooney, Thomas P ^a   Antolik, Christopher ^b   Moran, Matthew D ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^c HENDRIX COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Deciduous forest; Detrital food web; Field experiment; Food web manipulation; Predation; Predator prey interactions

Indexed keywords

ACARI; AMPHIUMA MEANS; ARTHROPODA; CAUDATA; COLEOPTERA; COLLEMBOLA; DIPLOPODA; FORMICIDAE; GRYLLIDAE; INVERTEBRATA; PLETHODON CINEREUS;

EID: 0033998668     PISSN: 00138797     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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