Diversity, function and stability in parasitoid communities

Ecology Letters

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 35-40

  Rodríguez, Miguel Á ^a   Hawkins, Bradford A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALCALÁ   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bottom up; Density compensation; Diversity function; Diversity stability; Parasitoids; Portfolio effect; Top down

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033966691     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1461-0248.2000.00115.x     Document Type: Article

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