Multiple prey traits, multiple predators: Keys to understanding complex community dynamics

Journal of Sea Research

Volumn 49, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 143-155

  DeWitt, Thomas J ^a   Langerhans, R Brian ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Co adaptation; Emergent impacts; Food webs; Indirect effects; Physa; Selection gradient analysis; Trait integration

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; COMMUNITY ECOLOGY; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; GRADIENT ANALYSIS; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; PHENOTYPE; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION;

ASTACOIDEA; BASOMMATOPHORA; GASTROPODA; PHYSA;

EID: 0037371472     PISSN: 13851101     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1385-1101(02)00220-4     Document Type: Conference Paper

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