Habitat isolation moderates the strength of top-down control in experimental pond food webs

Habitat isolation is well known to alter patterns of species' abundance, richness, and the ratios of predators: prey. Less clear, however, is how isolation alters interactions within food webs. Here, we present the results from an experiment performed in artificial ponds (mesocosms) manipulatin...

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Veröffentlicht in:Ecology (Durham) 2010-03, Vol.91 (3), p.637-643
Hauptverfasser: Chase, Jonathan M., Burgett, Amber A., Biro, Elizabeth G.
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