Behavioural responses to predation may explain shifts in community structure

Freshwater Biology

Volumn 60, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 125-135

  Hammill, Edd ^a,b   Atwood, Trisha B ^a,c   Corvalan, Paloma ^a,c   Srivastava, Diane S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Bromeliad communities; Community ecology; Inducible defences; Mosquito; Predator prey

Indexed keywords

EID: 84915754071     PISSN: 00465070     EISSN: 13652427     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/fwb.12475     Document Type: Article

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