Trophic cascades, invasive species and body-size hierarchies interactively modulate climate change responses of ecotonal temperate-boreal forest

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 367, Issue 1605, 2012, Pages 2955-2961

  Frelich, Lee E ^a   Peterson, Rolf O ^b   Dovĉiak, Martin ^c   Reich, Peter B ^a,d   Vucetich, John A ^b   Eisenhauer, Nico ^a,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b MICHIGAN TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^d WESTERN SYDNEY UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^e TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Body mass; Climate warming; Exotic earthworms; Soil food webs; Trophic interactions

Indexed keywords

BODY MASS; BOREAL FOREST; CLIMATE CHANGE; DEER; DETRITIVORY; EARTHWORM; FOOD WEB; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEM; PLANT COMMUNITY; SAPLING; SOIL FAUNA; TROPHIC CASCADE; TROPHIC INTERACTION;

ALCES ALCES; CERVIDAE; ODOCOILEUS VIRGINIANUS;

EID: 84866594887     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2012.0235     Document Type: Review

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