Bottom-up and top-down processes interact to modify intraguild interactions in resource-pulse environments

Oecologia

Volumn 175, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 1349-1358

  Greenville, Aaron C ^a,b   Wardle, Glenda M ^a,b   Tamayo, Bobby ^a,b   Dickman, Chris R ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b Long Term Ecological Research Network Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network   (Australia)

Author keywords

Apex predators; Biodiversity; Boom and bust; Depredation; Mesopredator release

Indexed keywords

CANIS FAMILIARIS DINGO; FELIS CATUS; VULPES; VULPES VULPES;

ANIMAL; BIODIVERSITY; BOVINAE; CAT; DOG; ENVIRONMENT; FOOD CHAIN; FOX; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PREDATION; THEORETICAL MODEL; WILD ANIMAL;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, WILD; BIODIVERSITY; CATS; CATTLE; DOGS; ENVIRONMENT; FOOD CHAIN; FOXES; MODELS, THEORETICAL; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR;

EID: 84904651506     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-014-2977-8     Document Type: Article

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