Relative importance of top-down and bottom-up forces in food webs of Sarracenia pitcher communities at a northern and a southern site

Oecologia

Volumn 165, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1073-1082

  Hoekman, David ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Food web dynamics; Predator prey interactions; Sarracenia purpurea; Spatial ecology; Top down effects

Indexed keywords

BOTTOM-UP CONTROL; CONSUMER-RESOURCE INTERACTION; DICOTYLEDON; FOOD WEB; LARVA; NATURAL ENEMY; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; TOP-DOWN CONTROL; VERTEBRATE;

ANIMAL; ANT; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FOOD CHAIN; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; LARVA; METABOLISM; MOSQUITO; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT LEAF; POPULATION DENSITY; PREDATION; ROTIFERA; SARRACENIACEAE; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALS; ANTS; BACTERIA; CULICIDAE; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FLORIDA; FOOD CHAIN; LARVA; MICHIGAN; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PLANT LEAVES; POPULATION DENSITY; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; ROTIFERA; SARRACENIACEAE;

FLORIDA [UNITED STATES]; MICHIGAN; UNITED STATES;

PROTOZOA; ROTIFERA; SARRACENIA; SARRACENIA PURPUREA; SARRACENIACEAE;

EID: 79952696150     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-010-1802-2     Document Type: Article

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