Consumer effects decline with prey diversity

Ecology Letters

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 192-201

  Hillebrand, Helmut ^a   Cardinale, Bradley J ^b  

^a GEOMAR HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR OCEAN RESEARCH KIEL   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Ecosystem functioning; Grazing; Meta analysis; Periphyton; Resistance; Trophic structure

Indexed keywords

CONSUMER-RESOURCE INTERACTION; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; GRAZING; META-ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TROPHIC STRUCTURE;

ALGAE;

EID: 1642323715     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2004.00570.x     Document Type: Article

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