Plant-fungus mutualism affects spider composition in successional fields

Ecology Letters

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 347-356

  Finkes, Laura K ^a   Cady, Alan B ^b   Mulroy, Juliana C ^c   Clay, Keith ^d   Rudgers, Jennifer A ^e  

^a SLIPPERY ROCK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MIAMI UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c DENISON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Endophyte; Lolium arundinaceum; Neotyphodium; Predation; Species richness; Symbiosis; Tri trophic

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; ENDOPHYTE; MUTUALISM; SPIDER; SYMBIOSIS;

ARANEAE; FESTUCA ARUNDINACEA; FUNGI; LINYPHIIDAE; LOLIUM; LYCOSIDAE; NEOTYPHODIUM; NEOTYPHODIUM COENOPHIALUM; THOMISIDAE;

EID: 33644957877     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: 14610248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2005.00882.x     Document Type: Article

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