Turning up the heat: Temperature influences the relative importance of top-down and bottom-up effects

Ecology

Volumn 91, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 2819-2825

  Hoekman, David ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Food web; Laboratory experiment; Predation; Temperature; Top down vs. bottom up forces; Wyeomyia smithii

Indexed keywords

ANT; BACTERIUM; BOTTOM-UP CONTROL; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMMUNITY ECOLOGY; DICOTYLEDON; DIGESTION; FOOD WEB; FORAGING EFFICIENCY; LABORATORY METHOD; METABOLISM; MOSQUITO; PREDATION; PREDATOR; PROTOZOAN; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; TOP-DOWN CONTROL; TROPHIC INTERACTION;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; ENERGY METABOLISM; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FOOD CHAIN; HEAT; LARVA; MOSQUITO; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; SARRACENIACEAE;

ANIMALS; BACTERIA; CULICIDAE; ENERGY METABOLISM; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FOOD CHAIN; HOT TEMPERATURE; LARVA; POPULATION DENSITY; SARRACENIACEAE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PROTOZOA; SARRACENIA PURPUREA; SARRACENIACEAE; WYEOMYIA SMITHII;

EID: 77957746337     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/10-0260.1     Document Type: Article

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