Trophic cascades across ecosystems

Nature

Volumn 437, Issue 7060, 2005, Pages 880-883

  Knight, Tiffany M ^a,b   McCoy, Michael W ^a   Chase, Jonathan M ^b   McCoy, Krista A ^a   Holt, Robert D ^a  

^a University of Florida   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; MARINE BIOLOGY; PLANTS (BOTANY); RESERVOIRS (WATER);

FOOD WEBS; POLLINATORS; PONDS; SPECIES INTERACTIONS;

ECOSYSTEMS;

COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; FOOD WEB; TROPHIC CASCADE;

AQUATIC ENVIRONMENT; ARTICLE; ECOSYSTEM; FISH; FOOD CHAIN; FOOD WEB; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; INSECT; INTERSPECIFIC RELATIONSHIP; LIFE HISTORY; NONHUMAN; ORGANISM COMMUNITY; PLANT REPRODUCTION; POLLINATION; PREDATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES COEXISTENCE; TROPHIC CASCADE;

ANISOPTERA (DRAGONFLIES); INSECTA;

EID: 27144507117     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature03962     Document Type: Article

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