Barcoding a quantified food web: Crypsis, concepts, ecology and hypotheses

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 7, 2011, Pages

  Smith, M Alex ^a   Eveleigh, Eldon S ^b,d   McCann, Kevin S ^c   Merilo, Mark T ^a   McCarthy, Peter C ^b   van Rooyen, Kathleen I ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

^b LAURENTIAN FORESTRY CENTRE   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NEW BRUNSWICK   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA;

ARTHROPOD; ARTICLE; CANADA; CHORISTONEURA FUMIFERANA; COMMUNITY ECOLOGY; DNA BARCODING; FOOD WEB; FORESTRY; INSECT; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; NORTH AMERICA; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITOID; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PREDICTION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES HABITAT; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION; SPRUCE; STANDARDIZATION; TAXONOMY; ANIMAL; BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; FOOD CHAIN; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METHODOLOGY; PARASITE;

AVES; CHORISTONEURA FUMIFERANA; HEXAPODA;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; DNA BARCODING, TAXONOMIC; FOOD CHAIN; INSECTS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PARASITES; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

EID: 79959966529     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0014424     Document Type: Article

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