No bottom-up effects of food addition on predators in a tropical forest

Keywords

Decomposer, Predation, Plant litter, Ecology, Litter

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• Long-term resource addition to a detrital food web yields a pattern of responses more complex than pervasive bottom-up controlKendra L. Lawrence, David H. Wise — 2017
• LiDAR‐derived canopy structure supports the more‐individuals hypothesis for arthropod diversity in temperate forestsJörg Müller, Roland Brandl, Martin Brändle — 2018
• Fine Root Biomass Mediates Soil Fauna Community in Response to Nitrogen Addition in Poplar Plantations (Populus deltoids) on the East Coast of ChinaHaixue Bian, Qinghong Geng, Hanran Xiao — 2019
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