Top-down and bottom-up regulation in a detritus-based aquatic food web: A repeated field experiment using the pitcher plant (Sarracenia purpurea) inquiline community

American Midland Naturalist

Volumn 157, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 52-62

  Hoekman, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOTTOM-UP CONTROL; CARNIVOROUS PLANT; DETRITIVORY; DETRITUS; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FOOD WEB; INQUILINISM; INSECTIVORY; POPULATION DENSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; TOP-DOWN CONTROL;

FLORIDA [UNITED STATES]; MICHIGAN; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

ACARI; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); INVERTEBRATA; PROTOZOA; ROTIFERA; SARRACENIA PURPUREA; SARRACENIACEAE;

EID: 33846838102     PISSN: 00030031     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1674/0003-0031(2007)157[52:TABRIA]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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