Community convergence in a simple microbial food web

Ecological Research

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 587-595

  Price, Jennifer E ^a,b   Morin, Peter J ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SOUTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES   (United States)

Author keywords

Alternate stable states; Community convergence; Food webs; Intraguild predation; Protists

Indexed keywords

CILIATE; CONVERGENCE; DENSITY DEPENDENCE; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; FOOD WEB; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; INTRAGUILD PREDATION; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; REFUGE; RESOURCE AVAILABILITY;

BLEPHARISMA; BLEPHARISMA AMERICANUM; PROTISTA; TETRAHYMENA; TETRAHYMENA VORAX;

EID: 67349100996     PISSN: 09123814     EISSN: 14401703     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11284-008-0529-6     Document Type: Article

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