A bug’s life: trophic implications of plant invasions.

Spafford, Reid, & Lortie

bugs have friends too

theory community invasion trophic

methods iPod dust buster contrasts

trophic implicationresearch

interactions pollinators drivers

integrated community concept

The sum of all direct and indirect, positive and negative influences which change in a non-proportional manner

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entire arthropod communities shift – not just herbivoresnow, need to decouple effect & response

however, given wide shift in all arthropod guilds,subsequent community less resistant

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