Invasive plant species alters consumer behavior by providing refuge from predation

Oecologia

Volumn 166, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 649-657

  Dutra, Humberto P ^a   Barnett, Kirk ^b   Reinhardt, Jason R ^b   Marquis, Robert J ^b   Orrock, John L ^c  

^a Life University   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI ST LOUIS   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Foraging activity; Indirect effects; Loniceramaackii; Peromyscusleucopus; Predation risk

Indexed keywords

COEXISTENCE; FOOD AVAILABILITY; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; INVASIVE SPECIES; NATIVE SPECIES; PREDATION; PREDATION RISK; REFUGE; RODENT; SEED PREDATION; SHRUB; VINE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ECOSYSTEM; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FOOD CHAIN; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; INTRODUCED SPECIES; LONICERA; OPOSSUM; PEROMYSCUS; PHYSIOLOGY; RACCOON; UNITED STATES; WEATHER;

ANIMALS; DIDELPHIS; ECOSYSTEM; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FOOD CHAIN; INTRODUCED SPECIES; LONICERA; MISSOURI; PEROMYSCUS; RACCOONS; WEATHER;

LONICERA; LONICERA MAACKII; MAMMALIA; MUS; PEROMYSCUS; RODENTIA;

EID: 79958735595     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-010-1895-7     Document Type: Article

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