Resources from another place and time: Responses to pulses in a spatially subsidized system

Ecology

Volumn 89, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 660-670

  Anderson, Wendy B ^a   Wait, D Alexander ^b   Stapp, Paul ^c  

^a DRURY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MISSOURI STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Community dynamics; Deserts; Gulf of California; Islands; Lizards; Nutrient subsidies; Plant physiology; Population dynamics; Primary productivity; Rodents; Spiders

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; DESERT; FOOD WEB; ISLAND; LIZARD; NUTRIENT DYNAMICS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; RESOURCE AVAILABILITY; RODENT; SEABIRD; SPIDER; THEORETICAL STUDY;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE; ECOSYSTEM; FOOD CHAIN; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION GROWTH; PREDATION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TIME;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE; ECOSYSTEM; FOOD CHAIN; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION GROWTH; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TIME FACTORS;

GULF OF CALIFORNIA; PACIFIC OCEAN;

ANIMALIA; ARANEAE; RODENTIA; SQUAMATA;

EID: 42249093180     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/07-0234.1     Document Type: Article

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