Bottom-up and top-down forces structuring consumer communities in an experimental grassland

Oikos

Volumn 122, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 967-976

  Rzanny, Michael ^a,b   Kuu, Annely ^c   Voigt, Winfried ^a  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^b DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^c TALLINN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Estonia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; ARTHROPOD; BIOMASS; BOTTOM-UP CONTROL; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; ECOSYSTEM STRUCTURE; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FUNCTIONAL GROUP; GRASSLAND; LEGUME; SOIL PROPERTY; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TOP-DOWN CONTROL; TROPHIC LEVEL;

ARTHROPODA;

EID: 84879417266     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: 16000706     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0706.2012.00114.x     Document Type: Article

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