Multiple sources of isotopic variation in a terrestrial arthropod community: Challenges for disentangling food webs

Environmental Entomology

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 776-791

  Daugherty, Matthew P ^a   Briggs, Cheryl J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Community structure; Feeding guild; Omnivory; Trophic position

Indexed keywords

ISOTOPE;

ARTHROPOD; BIOLOGICAL CONTROL; C3 PLANT; C4 PLANT; CARBON ISOTOPE; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; FOOD WEB; GUILD; NITROGEN ISOTOPE; OMNIVORY; PEST SPECIES; PREDATOR; STABLE ISOTOPE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FOOD CHAIN; FRUIT; INSECT; METABOLISM; PARASITOLOGY; PEAR; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT LEAF;

ANIMALS; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FOOD CHAIN; FRUIT; INSECTS; ISOTOPES; PLANT LEAVES; PYRUS;

ARTHROPODA; CACOPSYLLA PYRI; CACOPSYLLA PYRICOLA; PYRUS;

EID: 34548172197     PISSN: 0046225X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1603/0046-225X(2007)36[776:MSOIVI]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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