Trophic cascades: Abiding heterogeneity and the trophic level concept at the end of the road

Oikos

Volumn 85, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 385-397

  Persson, Lennart ^a  

^a UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HETEROGENEITY; TROPHIC CASCADE; TROPHIC LEVEL;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 0033040177     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3546688     Document Type: Short Survey

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