Omnivory and the stability of simple food webs

Oecologia

Volumn 117, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 413-419

  Holyoak, Marcel ^a   Sachdev, Sambhav ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cannibalism; Omnivory; Population persistence; Stability; Starvation

Indexed keywords

FOOD WEB; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; OMNIVORY; STABILITY ANALYSIS;

EID: 0032408436     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004420050675     Document Type: Article

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