Habitat provisioning for aboveground predators decreases detritivores

Ecology

Volumn 88, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 2803-2809

  Miyashita, Tadashi ^a   Takada, Mayura ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cedar forests; Chiba Prefecture; Detritus food web; Eastern Japan; Habitat modification; Indirect effect; Predator; Web spider

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BOTTOM-UP CONTROL; CONIFEROUS FOREST; DETRITIVORY; ECOSYSTEM ENGINEERING; FOOD WEB; INSECT; PREDATOR; SPIDER; TOP-DOWN CONTROL; TROPHIC CASCADE;

ASIA; CHIBA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; HONSHU; JAPAN; KANTO;

ARANEAE; HEXAPODA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENT; FOOD CHAIN; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; INSECT; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PREDATION; SPIDER;

ANIMALS; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENT; FOOD CHAIN; INSECTS; PLANT PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; SPIDERS;

EID: 38449109176     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/06-1633.1     Document Type: Article

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