Modelling interactions of food quality and quantity in homeostatic consumers

Freshwater Biology

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 473-481

  Sterner, Robert W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON; FOOD QUALITY; FOOD QUANTITY; GROWTH LIMITATION; MODELLING; PHOSPHORUS;

ANIMALIA; CLADOCERA; DAPHNIA;

EID: 0031415163     PISSN: 00465070     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2427.1997.00234.x     Document Type: Article

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