Press perturbations and the predictability of ecological interactions in a food web

Ecology

Volumn 78, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 55-69

  Schmitz, Oswald J ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Community matrix and inverse; Ecological interactions, predictability of; Field experiment; Food web dynamics; Grasses, grasshoppers, and nitrogen; Manipulative experiments; Old field food web; Parry Sound, Ontario, Canada; Press perturbation experiment

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY MATRIX; FOOD WEB; FOOD WEBS; INTERSPECIFIC RELATIONSHIP; INTERSPECIFIC RELATIONSHIPS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PRESS PERTURBATION; PRESS PERTURBATIONS PREDICTABILITY;

EID: 0030998929     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/2265978     Document Type: Article

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