Increasing isolation reduces predator:prey species richness ratios in aquatic food webs

Oikos

Volumn 116, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 1581-1587

  Shulman, Rachel S ^a,b   Chase, Jonathan M ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AQUATIC ENVIRONMENT; FOOD WEB; MESOCOSM; POND; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; PREY AVAILABILITY; SPECIES RICHNESS;

AMPHIBIA; CRUSTACEA; HEXAPODA;

EID: 34548044703     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: 16000706     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0030-1299.2007.14690.x     Document Type: Article

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