Lake to land subsidies: Experimental addition of aquatic insects increases terrestrial arthropod densities

Ecology

Volumn 92, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 2063-2072

  Hoekman, David ^a   Dreyer, Jamin ^a   Jackson, Randall D ^a   Townsend, Philip A ^a   Gratton, Claudio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Arthropod community; Collembola; Cross ecosystem movement; Detrital food web; Field experiment; Heathland; Iceland; Lake to land subsidy; Midges; Mites; Resource pulse

Indexed keywords

AQUATIC ORGANISM; BIOMASS; FIELD METHOD; FOOD WEB; HOST-PARASITOID INTERACTION; INSECT; LAKE; LARVA; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; NUMERICAL MODEL; NUTRIENT CYCLING; POPULATION DENSITY; PREDATOR; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TAXONOMY; TERRESTRIAL ENVIRONMENT;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; DEMOGRAPHY; ECOSYSTEM; INSECT; LAKE; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; TIME;

ANIMALS; DEMOGRAPHY; ECOSYSTEM; INSECTS; LAKES; POPULATION DENSITY; TIME FACTORS;

ICELAND;

ACARI; ARTHROPODA; CHIRONOMIDAE; COLEOPTERA; COLLEMBOLA; DIPTERA; HEXAPODA; HYMENOPTERA;

EID: 80054823678     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/11-0160.1     Document Type: Article

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