Primary productivity and trophic dynamics investigated in a North Derbyshire, UK, dale

Oikos

Volumn 80, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 499-508

  Fraser, Lauchlan H ^a,b   Grime, J Philip ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HERBIVORY; PREDATION; PRIMARY PRODUCTIVITY; TROPHIC DYNAMICS;

DERBYSHIRE; ENGLAND; UK;

EID: 0031471826     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3546623     Document Type: Article

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