Invasion of a stream food web by a new top predator

Journal of Animal Ecology

Volumn 70, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 273-288

  Woodward, Guy ^a,b   Hildrew, Alan G ^a  

^a QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Connectance; Intraguild predation; Niche overlap; Omnivory; Ontogenetic diet shifts

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL INVASION; DRAGONFLY; FOOD WEB; PREDATOR; STREAM;

CORDULEGASTER BOLTONII;

EID: 0035036708     PISSN: 00218790     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2656.2001.00497.x     Document Type: Article

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