Linking individuals with ecosystems: Experimentally identifying the relevant organizational scale for predicting trophic abundances

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 99, Issue 20, 2002, Pages 12927-12931

  Ovadia, Ofer ^a   Schmitz, Oswald J ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Grasshoppers; Herbivore mediated trophic effects; Old field ecosystem; Size dependent predation risk; Trait mediated indirect effects

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BODY SIZE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENT; ECOSYSTEM; FORAGING; GRASS; GRASSHOPPER; HABITAT STRUCTURE; HERB; HERBIVORY; NONHUMAN; PLANT ANIMAL INTERACTION; PREDATION; PREDATOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPIDER; TIME; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALS; BODY CONSTITUTION; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM; GRASSHOPPERS; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; SEASONS; TIME FACTORS;

ANIMALIA; ARANEAE; POACEAE;

EID: 0036790997     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.192245499     Document Type: Article

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