Experimental evidence for emergent facilitation: Promoting the existence of an invertebrate predator by killing its prey

Journal of Animal Ecology

Volumn 80, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 615-621

  Huss, Magnus ^a,b   Nilsson, Karin A ^a  

^a UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b INSTITUTE OF MARINE RESEARCH   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Bythotrephes; Coexistence; Facilitation; Harvest; Holopedium; Overcompensation; Regulation; Reproduction; Size structure; Stage specific predation

Indexed keywords

FRESH WATER;

BIOLOGICAL INVASION; COEXISTENCE; CRUSTACEAN; EMERGENCE; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FACILITATION; FECUNDITY; FISH; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; HARVESTING; INVERTEBRATE; JUVENILE; PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSE; PREDATION; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; REPRODUCTION; SIZE STRUCTURE; ZOOPLANKTON;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOMASS; BIOTA; BODY SIZE; CLADOCERA; FOOD CHAIN; GENETIC SELECTION; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; LIFE CYCLE; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PREDATION; REPRODUCTION; ZOOPLANKTON;

ANIMALS; BIOMASS; BIOTA; BODY SIZE; CLADOCERA; FOOD CHAIN; FRESH WATER; LIFE CYCLE STAGES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; REPRODUCTION; SELECTION, GENETIC; ZOOPLANKTON;

BYTHOTREPHES; BYTHOTREPHES LONGIMANUS; HOLOPEDIUM GIBBERUM; INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 79953298387     PISSN: 00218790     EISSN: 13652656     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2656.2011.01810.x     Document Type: Article

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