Importance of species interactions to community heritability: A genetic basis to trophic-level interactions

Ecology Letters

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 78-85

  Bailey, Joseph K ^a   Wooley, Stuart C ^b   Lindroth, Richard L ^b   Whitham, Thomas G ^a  

^a NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Avian predation; Community genetics; Condensed tannins; Ecosystem processes; Energy flow; Herbivory; Heritability; Populus; Trophic level interactions

Indexed keywords

GENETICS; HERBIVORY; HERITABILITY; TROPHIC INTERACTION;

ANIMAL; APHID; ARTICLE; ASPEN; BIRD; FOOD CHAIN; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; METABOLISM; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT LEAF;

ANIMALS; APHIDS; BIRDS; FOOD CHAIN; GENOTYPE; PLANT LEAVES; POPULUS;

ARTHROPODA; AVES; POPULUS;

EID: 33644951851     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: 14610248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2005.00844.x     Document Type: Article

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