Does removal of an alien predator from small islands in the Baltic Sea induce a trophic cascade?

Ecography

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 546-552

  Fey, Karen ^a   Banks, Peter B ^b   Oksanen, Lauri ^a,c   Korpimäki, Erkki ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; GRAZING PRESSURE; HERB; HERBIVORE; INTRODUCED SPECIES; ISLAND; MUSTELID; PLANT COMMUNITY; PREDATOR CONTROL; RODENT; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TROPHIC CASCADE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; BALTIC SEA;

CLETHRIONOMYS GLAREOLUS; MICROTUS AGRESTIS; MURIDAE; MUSTELA; MUSTELA VISON;

EID: 67649986261     PISSN: 09067590     EISSN: 16000587     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0587.2008.05637.x     Document Type: Article

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