Light environment and the impacts of foliage quality on herbivorous insect attack and bird predation

Oecologia

Volumn 166, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 401-409

  Barber, Nicholas A ^a   Marquis, Robert J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI ST LOUIS   (United States)

Author keywords

Bottom up; Edge effects; Quercus; Top down; Trophic cascade

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BIRD; BOTTOM-UP APPROACH; EDGE EFFECT; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FOLIAGE; HABITAT USE; HERBIVORY; HOST PLANT; INSECT; LIGHT AVAILABILITY; PHENOLIC COMPOUND; PLANT-HERBIVORE INTERACTION; PREDATION; SAPLING; SHRUB; TOP-DOWN CONTROL; TROPHIC CASCADE;

ANIMAL; ARTHROPOD; ARTICLE; BIRD; ECOSYSTEM; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FOOD CHAIN; LIGHT; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT LEAF; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PREDATION; RADIATION EXPOSURE;

ANIMALS; ARTHROPODS; BIRDS; ECOSYSTEM; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FOOD CHAIN; LIGHT; PLANT LEAVES; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR;

AVES; HEXAPODA; QUERCUS;

EID: 79956051477     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-010-1840-9     Document Type: Article

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