A brown-world cascade in the dung decomposer food web of an alpine meadow: Effects of predator interactions and warming

Ecological Monographs

Volumn 81, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 313-328

  Wu, Xinwei ^a   Duffy, J Emmett ^b   Reich, Peter B ^c   Sun, Shucun ^a,d  

^a CHENGDU INSTITUTE OF BIOLOGY   (China)

^b VIRGINIA INSTITUTE OF MARINE SCIENCE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^d NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Alpine meadow; Artificial warming; Beetles; Biodiversity and ecosystem function; China; Coprophagy; Dung decomposers; Food webs; Nutrient cycling; Predator; Qinghai Tibetan Plateau; Top down control; Trophic cascade

Indexed keywords

ALPINE ENVIRONMENT; BEETLE; COPROPHAGY; DECOMPOSITION; DETRITUS; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; FOOD WEB; GLOBAL WARMING; GROWTH RATE; HERBIVORE; MEADOW; NUTRIENT CYCLING; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TOP-DOWN CONTROL; TROPHIC CASCADE;

CHINA; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU;

COLEOPTERA;

EID: 79955514494     PISSN: 00129615     EISSN: 15577015     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/10-0808.1     Document Type: Article

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