Nonlinear responses to food availability shape effects of habitat fragmentation on consumers

Ecology

Volumn 92, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 98-107

  Blackburn, Heather B ^a   Hobbs, N Thompson ^a   Detling, James K ^a  

^a Veterinary Dentistry and Oral Surgery   (United States)

Author keywords

Cabbage looper; Connectivity; Consumer resource interactions; Food distribution; Jensen's inequality; Landscape fragmentation; Landscape heterogeneity; Nonlinearity; Patchiness; Resource distribution; Trichoplusia ni

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL ECOSYSTEM; CONNECTIVITY; CONSUMER-RESOURCE INTERACTION; DECADAL VARIATION; EDGE EFFECT; FOOD AVAILABILITY; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; LANDSCAPE CHANGE; LARVA; MOTH; NONLINEARITY; PATCHINESS; RESOURCE AVAILABILITY; RESOURCE USE; SHAPE ANALYSIS; SURVIVORSHIP;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; DEMOGRAPHY; ECOSYSTEM; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; LARVA; MOTH; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; DEMOGRAPHY; ECOSYSTEM; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; LARVA; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOTHS;

TRICHOPLUSIA NI;

EID: 79955528738     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/10-0637.1     Document Type: Article

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