The effect of chronic seaweed subsidies on herbivory: Plant-mediated fertilization pathway overshadows lizard-mediated predator pathways

Oecologia

Volumn 172, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 1129-1135

  Piovia Scott, Jonah ^a   Spiller, David A ^a   Takimoto, Gaku ^b   Yang, Louie H ^a   Wright, Amber N ^a   Schoener, Thomas W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b TOHO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Aboveground belowground linkage; Detritus; Path analysis; Resource subsidy; Stable isotope analysis

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; COMMUNITY RESPONSE; DETRITUS; DIET; FERTILIZATION (REPRODUCTION); FOOD WEB; HERBIVORY; PATH ANALYSIS; PREDATOR; SEAWEED; SHORELINE; SUBSIDENCE; TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEM;

SQUAMATA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BAHAMAS; DIET; ECOSYSTEM; HERBIVORY; LIZARD; POPULATION DENSITY; PREDATION; SEAWEED;

ANIMALS; BAHAMAS; DIET; ECOSYSTEM; HERBIVORY; LIZARDS; POPULATION DENSITY; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; SEAWEED;

EID: 84880826044     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-012-2560-0     Document Type: Article

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