Predators are rare even when they are small

Oikos

Volumn 95, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 471-475

  Ahlering, Marissa A ^a   Carrel, James E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BODY SIZE; MACROINVERTEBRATE; PREDATOR;

EID: 0035709650     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1600-0706.2001.950312.x     Document Type: Article

References (10)

1. Stochastic structure and nonlinear dynamics of food webs: Quantitative stability in a Lotka-Volterra cascade model
2. Body sizes of animal predators and animal prey in food webs
3. The role of experimental microcosms in ecological research
4. Energy and community evolution
5. Are predators rare?
6. Invertebrate predator-prey body size relationships: An explanation for upper-triangular food webs and patterns in food web structure?
7. Indicator species and scale of observation
8. The distribution and abundance of leaf litter arthropods in MOFEP sites 1, 2, and 3