Spatial subsidies in spider diets vary with shoreline structure: Complementary evidence from molecular diet analysis and stable isotopes

Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 6, Issue 23, 2016, Pages 8431-8439

  Hambäck, Peter A ^a   Weingartner, Elisabeth ^a   Dalén, Love ^b   Wirta, Helena ^c   Roslin, Tomas ^c,d  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b SWEDISH MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^d SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Baltic Sea; chironomids; DNA barcoding; Pardosa; stable isotope analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 84996843138     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20457758     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ece3.2536     Document Type: Article

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