Linearity in the aggregate effects of multiple predators in a food web

Ecology Letters

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 168-172

  Schmitz, Oswald J ^a   Sokol Hessner, Lauge ^a  

^a Yale School of the Environment   (United States)

Author keywords

Food web interactions; Grasshoppers; Hunting spiders; Indirect effects; Multiple predators; Old field food web; Trophic interactions

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY ECOLOGY; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; FOOD WEB; GUILD STRUCTURE; LINEARITY; TROPHIC INTERACTION;

EID: 0036131308     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1461-0248.2002.00311.x     Document Type: Article

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