Environmental warming alters food-web structure and ecosystem function

Nature

Volumn 402, Issue 6757, 1999, Pages 69-72

  Petchey, Owen L ^a   McPhearson, P Timon ^a   Casey, Timothy M ^a   Morin, Peter J ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOSYSTEM DYNAMICS; FOOD WEB; GLOBAL WARMING;

ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; ECOSYSTEM; FOOD; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; NONHUMAN; PREDATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0033523902     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/47023     Document Type: Article

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