Organizing and understanding a winter's seagrass foodweb network through effective trophic levels

Ecological Modelling

Volumn 117, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 99-124

  Christian, Robert R ^a   Luczkovich, Joseph J ^a  

^a EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Carbon flow; Effective trophic level; Network analysis; Seagrass community

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL METHOD; FOOD WEB; SEAGRASS MEADOW; TROPHIC LEVEL;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 0033120463     PISSN: 03043800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3800(99)00022-8     Document Type: Article

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