Intraguild interactions between spiders and ants and top-down control in a grassland food web

Oecologia - Tập 150 Số 4 - Trang 611-624 - 2006
Dirk Sanders1, Christian Platner1
1Ecology Group, Institute of Zoology, Anthropology and Developmental Biology, Georg-August University of Göttingen, Gottingen, Germany

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