The world and its shades of green: A meta-analysis on trophic cascades across temperature and precipitation gradients

Global Ecology and Biogeography

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 118-130

  Rodriguez Castaneda G ^a  

^a UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Annual precipitation; Elevation; Herbivory; Mean annual temperature; Meta analysis; Plant defences; Plant productivity; Predation; Trophic cascades

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; CLIMATE PREDICTION; HERBIVORE; HERBIVORY; PLANT; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); PREDATION; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT;

EID: 84870927571     PISSN: 1466822X     EISSN: 14668238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1466-8238.2012.00795.x     Document Type: Article

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