Complementary molecular information changes our perception of food web structure

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 111, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 1885-1890

  Wirt, Helena K ^a   Hebert, Paul D N ^b   Kaartinen, Riikka ^a   Prosser, Sean W ^b   Várkonyi, Gergely ^c   Roslin, Tomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

^c FINNISH ENVIRONMENT INSTITUTE   (Finland)

Author keywords

DNA barcode; Hymenoptera; Lepidoptera; Trophic interaction

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; DIPTERA; DNA BARCODING; DNA SEQUENCE; FOOD WEB; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; HYMENOPTERA; ICHNEUMONOIDEA; NONHUMAN; PARASITOID; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES RICHNESS;

DNA BARCODE; HYMENOPTERA; LEPIDOPTERA; TROPHIC INTERACTION;

ANIMALS; DNA; FOOD CHAIN; GEOGRAPHY; GREENLAND; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; LEPIDOPTERA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PERCEPTION;

EID: 84893441945     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1316990111     Document Type: Article

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