Weak trophic interactions and the balance of nature

Nature

Volumn 395, Issue 6704, 1998, Pages 794-798

  McCann, Kevin ^a   Hastings, Alan ^a   Huxel, Gary R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOMASS; ECOSYSTEM; FOOD CHAIN; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; OSCILLATION; POPULATION DENSITY; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

EID: 0032558786     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/27427     Document Type: Article

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