Is resolution the solution?: The effect of taxonomic resolution on the calculated properties of three stream food webs

Freshwater Biology

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 413-422

  Thompson, Ross M ^a   Townsend, Colin R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Connectance; Food chain length; Linkage complexity; Macroinvertebrates; Stream algae

Indexed keywords

FOOD WEB; STREAM; TAXONOMY;

EID: 0033920072     PISSN: 00465070     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2427.2000.00579.x     Document Type: Article

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