On the influence of food quality in consumer-resource interactions

Ecology Letters

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 256-261

  Huxel, Gary R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Consumer resource; Food quality; Multiple limiting resources; Paradox of enrichment; Trophic cascade

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032780691     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1461-0248.1999.00077.x     Document Type: Article

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