The loss of indirect interactions leads to cascading extinctions of carnivores

Ecology Letters

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 664-669

  Sanders, Dirk ^a,b   Sutter, Louis ^a   van Veen, F J Frank ^b  

^a Department of Conservation Biology   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Aphids; Community stability; Indirect effects; Non trophic interactions; Parasitoids; Resource competition; Secondary extinctions; Species loss

Indexed keywords

APHID; CARNIVORE; COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); ECOLOGICAL MODELING; EXTINCTION; HABITAT LOSS; HARVESTING; HOST-PARASITOID INTERACTION; PLANT-HERBIVORE INTERACTION; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; TOP-DOWN CONTROL; TROPHIC INTERACTION; TROPHIC LEVEL; VULNERABILITY;

ANIMAL; APHID; ARTICLE; CARNIVORA; ECOSYSTEM; FOOD CHAIN; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PREDATION; SPECIES EXTINCTION; VICIA FABA; WASP;

ANIMALS; APHIDS; CARNIVORA; ECOSYSTEM; EXTINCTION, BIOLOGICAL; FOOD CHAIN; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; VICIA FABA; WASPS;

APHIDIDAE; ARTHROPODA; HEXAPODA;

EID: 84876696425     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: 14610248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/ele.12096     Document Type: Article

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