Effects of predator density and duration of predator occupancy on crustacean abundance and diversity in experimental pools

Hydrobiologia

Volumn 652, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 269-276

  Eitam, Avi ^a,b   Blaustein, Leon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

^b UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE   (United States)

Author keywords

Intermediate disturbance hypothesis; Keystone predation; Notonectidae; Predator mediated coexistence; Species diversity

Indexed keywords

COMPLEX INTERACTION; DAPHNIA; DAPHNIA MAGNA; IN-LINE; INTERMEDIATE DENSITIES; INTERMEDIATE DISTURBANCE HYPOTHESIS; NOTONECTIDAE; POSITIVE EFFECTS; PREDATOR DENSITY; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

ARCHES; COMPETITION; LAKES; OCEAN HABITATS;

MAMMALS;

ABUNDANCE; ARTIFICIAL ECOSYSTEM; COEXISTENCE; CRUSTACEAN; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; INSECT; KEYSTONE SPECIES; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

CERIODAPHNIA; CRUSTACEA; DAPHNIA; DAPHNIA MAGNA; INVERTEBRATA; MOINA; MOINA BRACHIATA; NOTONECTA; NOTONECTA MACULATA; NOTONECTIDAE;

EID: 77954690278     PISSN: 00188158     EISSN: 15735117     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10750-010-0357-x     Document Type: Article

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