Top-down is bottom-up: Does predation in the rhizosphere regulate aboveground dynamics?

Ecology

Volumn 84, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 846-857

  Moore, John C ^a   McCann, Kevin ^b   Setälä, Heikki ^c   De Ruiter, Peter C ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN COLORADO   (United States)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^d UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Nutrient dynamics; Rhizosphere; Soil food webs; Stability; Trophic structure

Indexed keywords

ABOVEGROUND PRODUCTION; NUTRIENT AVAILABILITY; PREDATION; RHIZOSPHERE; TROPHIC STRUCTURE;

EID: 0043094329     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/0012-9658(2003)084[0846:TIBDPI]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Review

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