Species Traits Predict Assemblage Dynamics at Ephemeral Resource Patches Created by Carrion

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Barton, Philip S ^a,b   Cunningham, Saul A ^c   Macdonald, Ben C T ^c   McIntyre, Sue ^c   Lindenmayer, David B ^a,b   Manning, Adrian D ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTHROPOD COMMUNITY; ARTICLE; BEETLE; BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL TRAIT; CARCASS; CARRION PATCHES; COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECOMPOSITION; ENVIRONMENTAL RECOLONIZATION; EPHEMERAL SPECIES; EXOTIC SPECIES; FOOD WEB; GRASSLAND; HABITAT PATCHINESS; INVASIVE SPECIES; NITROGEN CYCLE; NONHUMAN; NUTRIENT CYCLING; PLANT COMMUNITY; POPULATION DISPERSAL; SOIL PROPERTY; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES DOMINANCE; SPECIES RICHNESS;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; ECOSYSTEM; INSECTS; NITROGEN; PLANT LEAVES; PLANTS; SOIL; VERTEBRATES;

ARTHROPODA; COLEOPTERA; HEXAPODA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 84872239089     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0053961     Document Type: Article

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