The influence of species identity and herbivore feeding mode on top-down and bottom-up effects in a salt marsh system

Oecologia

Volumn 133, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 243-253

  Moon, Daniel C ^a   Stiling, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bottom up; Feeding guild; Parasitoids; Plant quality; Top down

Indexed keywords

BOTTOM-UP CONTROL; HERBIVORE; INSECT; PARASITOID; SALTMARSH; TOP-DOWN CONTROL;

ANIMALIA; ARCHAEORRHYNCHA; ASPHONDYLIA; ASPHONDYLIA BORRICHIAE; BORRICHIA FRUTESCENS; CECIDOMYIIDAE; DELPHACIDAE; DIPTERA; HEMIPTERA; HYMENOPTERA; INSECTA; PISSONOTUS; PISSONOTUS QUADRIPUSTULATUS; PROKELISIA MARGINATA; SPARTINA ALTERNIFLORA;

EID: 0036932162     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-002-1013-6     Document Type: Article

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