Pollinators as mediators of top-down effects on plants

Ecology Letters

Volumn 6, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 688-694

  Suttle, Kenwyn B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Crab spider; Indirect effects; Interaction web; Leucanthemum vulgare; Misumenops schlingeri; Ox eye daisy; Pollen limitation; Pollination; Predation; Risk effects

Indexed keywords

LIMITING FACTOR; PLANT-INSECT INTERACTION; POLLINATION; PREDATION; REPRODUCTION; TOP-DOWN CONTROL;

ANIMALIA; ARANEAE; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); HEXAPODA; INSECTA; LEUCANTHEMUM VULGARE; MAGNOLIOPHYTA; MISUMENOPS; RIPARIA; THOMISIDAE;

EID: 0042629372     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1461-0248.2003.00490.x     Document Type: Review

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