Long-term effects of predator arrival timing on prey community succession

American Naturalist

Volumn 173, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 354-362

  Olito, Colin ^a   Fukami, Tadashi ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Assembly history; Historical contingency; Predation; Springboard species; Succession; Transient dynamics

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; ARRIVAL TIME; HISTORICAL ECOLOGY; MICROCOSM; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; SUCCESSION;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; ECOSYSTEM; FOOD CHAIN; POPULATION DYNAMICS; TIME;

ANIMALS; ECOSYSTEM; FOOD CHAIN; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; POPULATION DYNAMICS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 61849172375     PISSN: 00030147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/596538     Document Type: Article

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