Top predators suppress rather than facilitate plants in a trait-mediated tri-trophic cascade

Biology Letters

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 710-713

  Griffin, John N ^a   Butler, Jack ^a   Soomdat, Nicole N ^a   Brun, Karen E ^a   Chejanovski, Zachary A ^a   Silliman, Brian R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Grazing; Non consumptive; Salt marsh

Indexed keywords

CRAB; ECOLOGICAL THEORY; GRASS; GRAZING PRESSURE; HERBIVORE; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; MONOCULTURE; PHYTOMASS; REFUGE; SALTMARSH; SNAIL; TOP-DOWN APPROACH; TRITROPHIC INTERACTION; TROPHIC CASCADE; VULNERABILITY;

UNITED STATES;

DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); GASTROPODA; POACEAE; SPARTINA;

EID: 80053918092     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2011.0166     Document Type: Article

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