Predator diversity dampens trophic cascades

Nature

Volumn 429, Issue 6990, 2004, Pages 407-410

  Finke, Deborah L ^a   Denno, Robert F ^a  

^a Bldg 142   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECOSYSTEMS; FOOD PRODUCTS; NATURAL RESOURCES; PRODUCTIVITY;

PREDATORS; PRIMARY PRODUCTION;

BIODIVERSITY;

FOOD WEB; PREDATOR; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TROPHIC CASCADE;

ARTHROPOD; ARTICLE; ECOSYSTEM; FOOD WEB; HERBIVORY; LAND BIOME; NONHUMAN; PREDATOR; PREDATOR PREY INTERACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TROPHIC CASCADE;

ANIMALS; ARTHROPODS; BIODIVERSITY; BIOMASS; FOOD CHAIN; PLANT PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR;

ARTHROPODA;

EID: 2642580890     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature02554     Document Type: Article

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