The formation of terrestrial food webs in glacier foreland: Evidence for the pivotal role of decomposer prey and intraguild predation

Pedobiologia

Volumn 54, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 147-152

  König, Tanja ^a   Kaufmann, Rüdiger ^b   Scheu, Stefan ^c  

^a DARMSTADT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Araneae; Carabidae; Collembola; Predators; Stable isotopes; Succession; Trophic structure

Indexed keywords

ARTHROPOD; DECOMPOSITION; DIET; FOOD WEB; GLACIER; HUMUS; INTRAGUILD PREDATION; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; SOIL ECOSYSTEM; SOIL FAUNA; SPECIES OCCURRENCE; STABLE ISOTOPE; SUCCESSION;

ALPS;

ANIMALIA; ARANEAE; CARABIDAE; CHILOPODA; COLEOPTERA; COLLEMBOLA; INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 79551688874     PISSN: 00314056     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pedobi.2010.12.004     Document Type: Article

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