Food Web of Sarracenia Purpurea in United States and Canada since 1999
- HF-ID: HF2020-05
- Category: Research Files
- Creator: Ellison, A.M., Gotelli, N.
- Associated Person: Baiser, B., Bledzki, L., Buckley, H., Butler, J., Miller, T.
- Date: 1999-2011
- Location: Canada, Hawley Bog (Hawley MA), Molly Bog (Morristown VT), Swift River Bog (Belchertown MA), United States
- Media: Mixed media
- Contents:
- raw data sheets & individual plant photographs (35mm slides) for hf193-01; raw data sheets for hf193-04.
- Keywords: entomology
- Abstract:
- How food webs are structured and how their structure and dynamics vary through time and space is a central focus of research in community ecology. We documented structural variation in the aquatic food web inhabiting pitcher-shaped leaves of the carnivorous pitcher plant Sarracenia purpurea across the geographic range of the plant (from Florida north to Labrador and west to British Columbia); examined temporal variation in this food web with detailed experiments in Massachusetts and Vermont; experimentally manipulated top-down and bottom-up processes in this food web in Massachusetts; and developed a dynamic simulation model of this food web that incorporates metacommunity dynamics.
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