Relevance of community structure in assessing indeterminacy of ecological predictions

Ecology

Volumn 83, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 1372-1385

  Dambacher, Jeffrey M ^a   Li, Hiram W ^b   Rossignol, Philippe A ^b  

^a and Evaluation   (United States)

^b OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adjoint matrix; Community matrix; Food web; Indeterminacy; Indirect effects; Inverse matrix; Press perturbation; Qualitative modeling; Signed digraph; Weighted predictions matrix

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY ECOLOGY; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; MATRIX;

EID: 0001630039     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/0012-9658(2002)083[1372:ROCSIA]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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