Bottom-up and top-down regulation of decomposition in a tropical forest

Oecologia

Volumn 153, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 163-172

  Milton, Ysabel ^a   Kaspari, Michael ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^b SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

Author keywords

Brown food web; Fungi; Microbivores; Trophic ecology; Tropics

Indexed keywords

ANT; BOTTOM-UP CONTROL; CELLULOSE; DECOMPOSITION; FOOD WEB; FOREST SOIL; FUNGUS; INTERSPECIFIC INTERACTION; LEAF LITTER; PHOSPHORUS; SOIL MICROORGANISM; SOIL MOISTURE; SOIL NITROGEN; TOP-DOWN CONTROL; TROPICAL FOREST;

ANIMAL; ARTHROPOD; ARTICLE; ECOSYSTEM; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; PANAMA; PHYSIOLOGY; TREE; TROPIC CLIMATE;

ANIMALS; ARTHROPODS; ECOSYSTEM; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; PANAMA; TREES; TROPICAL CLIMATE;

CENTRAL AMERICA; PANAMA [CENTRAL AMERICA];

ARTHROPODA; COLLEMBOLA; DIPLOPODA; FORMICIDAE; FUNGI;

EID: 34447618576     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-007-0710-6     Document Type: Article

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