Invasive litter, not an invasive insectivore, determines invertebrate communities in Hawaiian forests

Biological Invasions

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 845-855

  Tuttle, Nathania C ^a   Beard, Karen H ^a   Pitt, William C ^b  

^a UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL WILDLIFE RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Biological invasions; Bottom up control; Eleutherodactylus coqui; Leaf litter; Top down control; Trophic cascade

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; AMPHIPOD; ANT; BIOLOGICAL INVASION; BOTTOM-UP CONTROL; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; ENDANGERED SPECIES; ENDEMIC SPECIES; FOOD CHAIN; FROG; INSECTIVORE; INVASIVE SPECIES; ISOPOD; LEAF LITTER; LEGUME; LITTER; NITROGEN FIXATION; PREDATION; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; TOP-DOWN CONTROL; TROPHIC CASCADE;

HAWAII [UNITED STATES]; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

AMPHIPODA; ANURA; ELEUTHERODACTYLUS COQUI; FALCATARIA MOLUCCANA; FORMICIDAE; HYMENOPTERA; INVERTEBRATA; ISOPODA; METROSIDEROS POLYMORPHA;

EID: 61449165915     PISSN: 13873547     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10530-008-9298-y     Document Type: Article

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