Understanding biodiversity effects on prey in multi-enemy systems

Ecology Letters

Volumn 9, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 995-1004

  Casula, Paolo ^a   Wilby, Andrew ^b   Thomas, Matthew B ^a,c  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^c CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Additive effects; Biological control; Complementarity; Ecosystem functioning; Intraguild predation; Phenotypic niche shifts; Predator diversity; Redundancy; Resource partitioning; Synergy

Indexed keywords

ANTAGONISM; BIODIVERSITY; NATURAL ENEMY; NICHE; PHENOTYPE; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; SYNERGISM;

BIODIVERSITY; ECOSYSTEM; FOOD CHAIN; HUMAN; POPULATION DYNAMICS; REVIEW; THEORETICAL MODEL;

BIODIVERSITY; ECOSYSTEM; FOOD CHAIN; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

EID: 33747627848     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: 14610248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2006.00945.x     Document Type: Review

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