Indirect effects of prey swamping: Differential seed predation during a bamboo masting event

Ecology

Volumn 88, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 2541-2554

  Kitzberger, Thomas ^a   Chaneton, Enrique J ^b   Caccia, Fernando ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DEL COMAHUE   (Argentina)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Apparent competition; Apparent mutualism; Chusquea culeou; Diet selection; Indirect interactions; Nothofagus spp.; Patagonia; Predator functional response; Prey quality; Resource pulse; Transient dynamics

Indexed keywords

BAMBOO; CONIFEROUS TREE; DECIDUOUS TREE; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; FLOWERING; INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION; LITTER; MASTING; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; PREY AVAILABILITY; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); SEED PREDATION; SWAMP;

PATAGONIA; SOUTH AMERICA;

AUSTROCEDRUS CHILENSIS; CHUSQUEA CULEOU; NOTHOFAGUS; NOTHOFAGUS ALPINA; NOTHOFAGUS DOMBEYI; NOTHOFAGUS OBLIQUA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CATERING SERVICE; ECOSYSTEM; FOOD CHAIN; FOOD PREFERENCE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT SEED; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PREDATION; SASA; SEASON;

ANIMALS; ECOSYSTEM; FOOD CHAIN; FOOD PREFERENCES; FOOD SUPPLY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; SASA; SEASONS; SEEDS;

EID: 38449104077     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/06-1587.1     Document Type: Article

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