More than a meal... integrating non-feeding interactions into food webs

Ecology Letters

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 291-300

  Kéfi, Sonia ^a,b   Berlow, Eric L ^c,d,e   Wieters, Evie A ^f,g   Navarrete, Sergio A ^f   Petchey, Owen L ^h,i   Wood, Spencer A ^j   Boit, Alice ^k   Joppa, Lucas N ^l   Lafferty, Kevin D ^m   Williams, Richard J ^l   Martinez, Neo D ^d   Menge, Bruce A ⁿ   Blanchette, Carol A ^m   Iles, Alison C ⁿ   Brose, Ulrich ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b INSTITUT DES SCIENCES DE L EVOLUTION   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d Pacific Ecoinformatics and Computational Ecology Lab   (United States)

^e U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^f PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE CHILE   (Chile)

^g RHODES UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

^h UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^j STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^k UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^l MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^m UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

ⁿ OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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Author keywords

Ecological network; Ecosystem engineering; Facilitation; Food web; Interaction modification; Non trophic interactions; Trophic interactions

Indexed keywords

ECOLOGICAL APPROACH; ECOSYSTEM ENGINEERING; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; FACILITATION; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FOOD WEB; HABITAT TYPE; TROPHIC INTERACTION;

ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM; FOOD CHAIN; PLANT; PREDATION; PROCEDURES; SYMBIOSIS;

ANIMALS; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM; FOOD CHAIN; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PLANTS; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; SYMBIOSIS;

EID: 84862777573     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: 14610248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2011.01732.x     Document Type: Article

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