Effects of sampling effort on characterization of food-web structure

Ecology

Volumn 80, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 1044-1055

  Martinez, Neo D ^a   Hawkins, Bradford A ^b,c   Dawah, Hassan Ali ^d   Feifarek, Brian P ^e  

^a SAN FRANCISCO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATURAL ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH COUNCIL   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Food webs; Observation effort; Quantitative food web patterns; Sampling effort; Scale; Scale dependence; Scale invariance; Trophic species

Indexed keywords

FOOD WEB; SAMPLING;

INSECTA; POACEAE;

EID: 0032897662     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/0012-9658(1999)080[1044:EOSEOC]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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