Local adaptation to temperature conserves top-down control in a grassland food web

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 278, Issue 1721, 2011, Pages 3102-3107

  Barton, Brandon T ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b Yale School of the Environment   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Behaviour; Climate change; Food web; Local climate; Predator prey

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN; FOOD WEB; GRASSHOPPER; HERB; LOCAL ADAPTATION; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; PLANT COMMUNITY; PLANT-HERBIVORE INTERACTION; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; SPIDER; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT; TOP-DOWN CONTROL;

UNITED STATES;

ARANEAE;

EID: 80052744121     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2011.0030     Document Type: Article

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