Weather variation and trophic interaction strength: Sorting the signal from the noise

Oecologia

Volumn 140, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 398-406

  Ovadia, Ofer ^a,b   Schmitz, Oswald J ^a  

^a Yale School of the Environment   (United States)

^b BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

Herbivore survival; Old field community; Temporal variation; Trophic interactions; Weather

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; OLD FIELD; PLANT COMMUNITY; TEMPORAL VARIATION; TROPHIC INTERACTION; WEATHER;

ARANEAE;

EID: 4344669488     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-004-1604-5     Document Type: Article

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