Variable dominance in pond communities: Assessing spatiotemporal variation in competition and predation intensity

Ecology

Volumn 84, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 982-990

  Steiner, Christopher F ^a,b  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Carbon; Chaoborus; Competition; Daphnia pulex; Interaction strength; Phosphorus; Predation; Seasonal succession; Size structure; Size efficiency hypothesis; Stoichiometry; Zooplankton

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); DOMINANCE; PHOSPHORUS; POND; PREDATION; SIZE STRUCTURE; ZOOPLANKTON;

ALGAE; CHAOBORUS; DAPHNIA; DAPHNIA PULEX; PULEX;

EID: 0041313823     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/0012-9658(2003)084[0982:VDIPCA]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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