Can seed-eating birds exert top-down effects on grasses of the Monte desert?

Oikos

Volumn 117, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 611-619

  Marone, Luis ^a,b   Lopez De Casenave, Javier ^c   Milesi, Fernando A ^c   Cueto, Víctor R ^c  

^a LABORATORIO DE ENTOMOLOGÍA   (Argentina)

^b PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE CHILE   (Chile)

^c UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BOTTOM-UP APPROACH; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DROUGHT; ENCLOSURE EXPERIMENT; FOOD CONSUMPTION; FOOD SELECTION; GERMINATION; GRANIVORY; NATURE RESERVE; PLANT-HERBIVORE INTERACTION; POPULATION DECLINE; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); SEED PREDATION; SENESCENCE; SPECIES DIVERSITY; STOMACH CONTENT; TOP-DOWN CONTROL;

ARGENTINA; MENDOZA; MONTE DESERT; SOUTH AMERICA;

ANIMALIA; AVES; POACEAE;

EID: 41149172802     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: 16000706     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0030-1299.2008.16506.x     Document Type: Article

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