Salamanders in forest-floor food webs: Invertebrate species composition influences top-down effects

Pedobiologia

Volumn 50, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 313-321

  Walton, B Michael ^a   Tsatiris, Dimitrios ^a   Rivera Sostre, Mary ^a  

^a CLEVELAND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Amphibians; Detrital food web; Indirect effects; Top down control

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; AMPHIBIAN; FOOD WEB; FOREST FLOOR; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; INVERTEBRATE; LEAF LITTER; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION REGULATION; PREDATOR; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

NORTH AMERICA;

ACARI; COLLEMBOLA; DIPLOPODA; INVERTEBRATA; ISOPODA; ORIBATIDA; PLETHODON CINEREUS; PLETHODONTIDAE; PSEUDOSCORPIONES; SALAMANDROIDEA;

EID: 33748109914     PISSN: 00314056     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pedobi.2006.04.001     Document Type: Article

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