Intraguild predation in pioneer predator communities of alpine glacier forelands

Molecular Ecology

Volumn 23, Issue 15, 2014, Pages 3744-3754

  Raso, Lorna ^a,b   Sint, Daniela ^a   Mayer, Rebecca ^a   Plangg, Simon ^a   Recheis, Thomas ^a   Brunner, Silvia ^a   Kaufmann, Rüdiger ^a   Traugott, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^b Meteoexplorationcom   (Austria)

Author keywords

Carabidae; Collembola; community assembly; Linyphiidae; Lycosidae; multiplex PCR; primary succession; trophic interactions

Indexed keywords

ARANEAE; CARABIDAE; COLEOPTERA; COLLEMBOLA; INVERTEBRATA; LINYPHIIDAE; LYCOSIDAE;

CARBON; NITROGEN;

ANIMAL; ARTHROPOD; AUSTRIA; BEETLE; CARABIDAE; CLASSIFICATION; COLLEMBOLA; COMMUNITY ASSEMBLY; CONFERENCE PAPER; DNA SEQUENCE; FOOD CHAIN; ICE COVER; LINYPHIIDAE; LYCOSIDAE; MULTIPLEX POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PHYSIOLOGY; PREDATION; PRIMARY SUCCESSION; SPIDER; TROPHIC INTERACTIONS;

CARABIDAE; COLLEMBOLA; COMMUNITY ASSEMBLY; LINYPHIIDAE; LYCOSIDAE; MULTIPLEX PCR; PRIMARY SUCCESSION; TROPHIC INTERACTIONS;

ANIMALS; ARTHROPODS; AUSTRIA; BEETLES; CARBON ISOTOPES; FOOD CHAIN; ICE COVER; NITROGEN ISOTOPES; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPIDERS;

EID: 84904765203     PISSN: 09621083     EISSN: 1365294X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/mec.12649     Document Type: Conference Paper

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