Anthropogenic resource subsidies decouple predator-prey relationships

Ecological Applications

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 936-943

  Rodewald, Amanda D ^a   Kearns, Laura J ^a   Shustack, Daniel P ^b  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS COLLEGE OF LIBERAL ARTS   (United States)

Author keywords

Birds; Forest; Landscape; Nest predation; Nest survival; Predator; Prey; Resource subsidy; Species interactions; Urban rural gradient

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC SOURCE; FOOD WEB; LANDSCAPE; MAMMAL; NEST PREDATION; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; REPRODUCTIVE BEHAVIOR; RURAL LANDSCAPE; SONGBIRD; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SURVIVAL; URBAN DEVELOPMENT; VIDEOGRAPHY;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; FOOD CHAIN; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; MAMMAL; NESTING; PHYSIOLOGY; PREDATION; SONGBIRD; TIME; URBANIZATION;

ANIMALS; FOOD CHAIN; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; MAMMALS; NESTING BEHAVIOR; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; SONGBIRDS; TIME FACTORS; URBANIZATION;

OHIO; UNITED STATES;

AVES; MAMMALIA; MOLOTHRUS ATER; PASSERI;

EID: 79955518744     PISSN: 10510761     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/10-0863.1     Document Type: Article

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