Predicting community outcomes from pairwise interactions: Integrating density- and trait-mediated effects

Oecologia

Volumn 131, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 569-579

  Relyea, Rick A ^a,b   Yurewicz, Kerry L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

Amphibians; Community ecology; Larval anurans; Phenotypic plasticity; Trait mediated interactions

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY ECOLOGY; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; MESOCOSM; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION;

AESHNIDAE; AMBYSTOMA; AMBYSTOMA TIGRINUM; AMPHIBIA; AMPHIUMA MEANS; ANAX; ANAX LONGIPES; ANISOPTERA (DRAGONFLIES); ANURA; CAUDATA; ODONATA; RANA CATESBEIANA; RANA CLAMITANS;

EID: 0036936017     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-002-0910-z     Document Type: Article

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