Invasive prey impacts the abundance and distribution of native predators

Ecology

Volumn 89, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 2678-2683

  Barber, Nicholas A ^a   Marquis, Robert J ^a   Tori, Wendy P ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI ST LOUIS   (United States)

^b EARLHAM COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Coccyzus; Cuckoo; Gypsy moth; Invasive species; Lymantria dispar; Outbreak; Predation; Spatial distribution

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BIRD; DEFOLIATION; IMMIGRATION; INVASIVE SPECIES; MOTH; NATIVE SPECIES;

AVES; COCCYZUS; COCCYZUS AMERICANUS; COCCYZUS ERYTHROPTHALMUS; CUCULIDAE; HEXAPODA; LYMANTRIA; LYMANTRIA DISPAR;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; BIRD; DEMOGRAPHY; ECOSYSTEM; FOOD CHAIN; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MOTH; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PREDATION;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; BIRDS; DEMOGRAPHY; ECOSYSTEM; FOOD CHAIN; MOTHS; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR;

EID: 45449114137     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/08-0395.1     Document Type: Article

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