Toward an integration of landscape and food web ecology: The dynamics of spatially subsidized food webs

Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics

Volumn 28, Issue , 1997, Pages 289-316

  Polis, Gary A ^a   Anderson, Wendy B ^a   Holt, Robert D ^b  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Consumer resource dynamics; Food webs; Landscape ecology; Spatial subsidy; Trophic dynamics

Indexed keywords

FOOD WEB DYNAMICS; FOOD WEB ECOLOGY; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; SPATIAL SUBSIDIZATION;

EID: 0031438539     PISSN: 00664162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.ecolsys.28.1.289     Document Type: Review

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