Multiple approaches to estimating the relative importance of top-down and bottom-up forces on insect populations: Experiments, life tables, and time-series analysis

Basic and Applied Ecology

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 295-309

  Hunter, Mark D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bottom up; Density dependence; Insect herbivores; Plant quality; Population dynamics; Population regulation; Top down; Trophic cascade

Indexed keywords

HEXAPODA; INSECTA;

EID: 0035197210     PISSN: 14391791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1078/1439-1791-00068     Document Type: Article

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