Experimental warming transforms multiple predator effects in a grassland food web

Ecology Letters

Volumn 12, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 1317-1325

  Barton, Brandon T ^a   Schmitz, Oswald J ^a  

^a Yale University   (United States)

Author keywords

Cascading effects; Climate warming; Indirect effects; Intraguild predation; Multiple predator effects; Trophic interaction strength

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; FOOD WEB; GRASS; GRASSHOPPER; GRASSLAND; HABITAT USE; HERB; HERBIVORE; INTRAGUILD PREDATION; SPIDER; VEGETATION COVER; WARMING;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; FOOD CHAIN; GRASSHOPPER; HEAT; POACEAE; POPULATION DENSITY; PREDATION; SPIDER; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALS; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONNECTICUT; FOOD CHAIN; GRASSHOPPERS; HOT TEMPERATURE; POACEAE; POPULATION DENSITY; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; SPIDERS;

ARANEAE;

EID: 70449365352     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: 14610248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2009.01386.x     Document Type: Article

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