Water as a trophic currency in dryland food webs

Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 156-160

  Allen, Daniel C ^a   McCluney, Kevin E ^b   Elser, Stephen R ^c   Sabo, John L ^d  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BOWLING GREEN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

^d ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CRICKET; ECOSYSTEM RESPONSE; FOOD WEB; GROUNDWATER; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); SURFACE WATER; ARID REGION; FLOODPLAIN; HYDROLOGY; TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEM; TROPHIC STATUS;

ARANEAE; GRYLLIDAE; SQUAMATA;

EID: 84903176640     PISSN: 15409295     EISSN: 15409309     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/130160     Document Type: Article

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