Source food webs as estimators of community web structure

Acta Oecologica

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 575-586

  Hawkins, B A ^a   Martinez, N D ^a   Gilbert, F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Community webs; Estimating food web parameters; Food webs; Scale dependence; Source webs

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; FOOD WEB;

EID: 0031451631     PISSN: 1146609X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1146-609X(97)80042-2     Document Type: Article

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