Predator richness increases the effect of prey diversity on prey yield

Nature Communications

Volumn 3, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Saleem, Muhammad ^a,b   Fetzer, Ingo ^a,d   Dormann, Carsten F ^a,c   Harms, Hauke ^a   Chatzinotas, Antonis ^a  

^a HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH UFZ   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^d STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOMINANCE; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; ECOSYSTEM MANAGEMENT; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FOOD CHAIN; GROWTH RATE; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; PREY AVAILABILITY; PROTIST; SPECIES RICHNESS; TROPHIC LEVEL;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL MICROCOSM; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BIODIVERSITY; COLONY FORMING UNIT; CONTROLLED STUDY; MICROCOSM; MONOCULTURE; NONHUMAN; PREDATION; PREDATOR; PREY; PROTIST;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PROTISTA;

EID: 84871775226     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms2287     Document Type: Article

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