Trees as templates for trophic structure of tropical litter arthropod fauna

Litter arthropod abundance in tropical forests is patchily distributed in space and time. This patchiness can be described by three general hypotheses relating plant-based effects to litter arthropod distribution. The tree hypothesis (H1) posits that environments maintained underneath tree canopies...

• Main Author: Kaspari, M. (author)
• Other Authors: Johnston, M. (author), Donoso Vargas, D. (author), Clay, N. (author)
• Format: article
• Published: 2013
• Subjects: brown food web; ecosystem size hypothesis; litter arthropods; predator to prey ratios; seasonality hypothesis; species hypothesis; tree hypothesis
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.soilbio.2013.02.004; http://dspace.utpl.edu.ec/handle/123456789/19210