Predator diet breadth influences the relative importance of bottom-up and top-down control of prey biomass and diversity

American Naturalist

Volumn 165, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 350-363

  Jiang, Lin ^a,b   Morin, Peter J ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bottom up control; Diversity; Predation; Predator diet breadth; Productivity; Top down control

Indexed keywords

BOTTOM-UP CONTROL; DIET; FOOD WEB; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TOP-DOWN CONTROL;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOMASS; CILIATE; DIET; EUPLOTES; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FOOD CHAIN; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; PREDATION; SPECIES EXTINCTION;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; BIOMASS; CILIOPHORA; DIET; EUPLOTES; EXTINCTION, BIOLOGICAL; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FOOD CHAIN; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; POPULATION DENSITY; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR;

EUPLOTES AEDICULATUS; STENTOR COERULEUS;

EID: 15944395783     PISSN: 00030147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/428300     Document Type: Article

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