Untangling interactions: Do temperature and habitat fragmentation gradients simultaneously impact biotic relationships?

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 281, Issue 1787, 2014, Pages

  Lakeman Fraser, Poppy ^a   Ewers, Robert M ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Antagonistic; Climate; Density; Land use change; Synergistic; Trophic level

Indexed keywords

ANTAGONISM; ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; ECOLOGICAL IMPACT; EDGE EFFECT; FOOD CHAIN; GLOBAL CHANGE; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; LAND USE CHANGE; NATURAL ENEMY; PLANT-HERBIVORE INTERACTION; SYNERGISM; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; TRITROPHIC INTERACTION; TROPHIC LEVEL;

NEW ZEALAND;

EID: 84902683064     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2014.0687     Document Type: Article

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