Interactions among predators and the cascading effects of vertebrate insectivores on arthropod communities and plants

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 107, Issue 16, 2010, Pages 7335-7340

  Mooney, Kailen A ^a   Gruner, Daniel S ^b   Barber, Nicholas A ^c   Van Bael, Sunshine A ^d   Philpott, Stacy M ^e   Greenberg, Russell ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Bldg 142   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI ST LOUIS   (United States)

^d SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO   (United States)

^f SMITHSONIAN CONSERVATION BIOLOGY INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Bottom up and top down control; Intraguild predation; Meta analysis; Trophic cascade; Vertebrate predator exclusion

Indexed keywords

ARTHROPOD; ARTICLE; BAT; BIOMASS; BIRD; BODY SIZE; FEEDING; HERBIVORE; INSECTIVORE; LIZARD; NONHUMAN; PREDATION; PREDATOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHRUB; VERTEBRATE;

ANIMALS; ARTHROPODS; BIOMASS; BODY SIZE; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; INSECTS; PLANTS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; SAMPLE SIZE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TREES;

ARTHROPODA; AVES; SQUAMATA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 77952136581     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1001934107     Document Type: Article

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