実験的な海藻の堆積が,島の食物網におけるトカゲとアリの捕食に及ぼす影響

Jonah Piovia-Scott1, David A Spiller, Thomas W Schoener

  • 1Section of Evolution and Ecology and Center for Population Biology, One Shields Avenue, University of California Davis, Davis, CA 95616-8755, USA. jpioviascott@ucdavis.edu

Science (New York, N.Y.)
|January 29, 2011
PubMed
まとめ

藻類の堆積のように環境の変化は,生態系における捕食者の相互作用を妨げることができます. この研究は,藻類の存在が,やアリなどの捕食動物が,草食動物に結合した影響を及ぼすのを防ぐことを示しています.

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