Food web stability: The influence of trophic flows across habitats

American Naturalist

Volumn 152, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 460-469

  Huxel, Gary R ^a   McCann, Kevin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Allochthonous inputs; Energetic tritrophic model; Food webs; Stability; Trophic cascades

Indexed keywords

ENERGY FLUX; FOOD WEB; MODEL; STABILITY ANALYSIS; TROPHIC INTERACTION;

EID: 0031685141     PISSN: 00030147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/286182     Document Type: Article

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