Mechanisms regulating ecological responses to resource pulses within cavity-nesting bird communities

Resource pulses may influence mechanisms that can regulate consumer populations directly through bottom-up effects on resource availability and indirectly via top-down effects of inter-specific interactions. Although these are well documented in food webs, the responses within nest webs (communities...

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Main Author: Norris, Andrea Rose
Language:English
Published: University of British Columbia 2012
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2429/43044