Assessing top-down and bottom-up control in a litter-based soil macroinvertebrate food chain

Oikos

Volumn 89, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 524-540

  Ponsard, Sergine ^a,b   Arditi, Roger ^a,b   Jost, Christian ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

^b AGROPARISTECH   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOTTOM-UP CONTROL; FOOD CHAIN; MACROINVERTEBRATE; SOIL FAUNA; TOP-DOWN CONTROL;

EID: 0034042278     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1600-0706.2000.890312.x     Document Type: Article

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