'Natural experiment' Demonstrates Top-Down Control of Spiders by Birds on a Landscape Level

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 9, 2012, Pages

  Rogers, Haldre ^a   Hille Ris Lambers, Janneke ^a   Miller, Ross ^b   Tewksbury, Joshua J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GUAM   (Guam)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; BIRD; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATIONAL STUDY; FOREST; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GUAM; NONHUMAN; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; POPULATION SIZE; PREDATOR PREY INTERACTION; SEASONAL POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEASONAL VARIATION; SNAKE; SPECIES INVASION; SPIDER;

ANIMALS; BIRDS; ECOSYSTEM; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; GUAM; ISLANDS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; SEASONS; SPIDERS; TREES;

ARANEAE; ARTHROPODA; AVES; BOIGA IRREGULARIS; CANIDAE; ENHYDRA; GECARCINIDAE;

EID: 84866098964     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0043446     Document Type: Article

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