Body size and food web structure: Testing the equiprobability assumption of the cascade model

Oecologia

Volumn 123, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 241-251

  Neubert, Michael G ^a   Blumenshine, Steven C ^b   Duplisea, Daniel E ^c   Jonsson, Tomas ^d,f   Rashleigh, Brenda ^e  

^a WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^b ARKANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENT   (United Kingdom)

^d LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^e EPA Ecosystems Assessment Branch   (United States)

^f ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Body size; Cascade model; Contingency tables; Food webs; Kernel smoothing

Indexed keywords

BODY SIZE; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; FOOD WEB; TROPHIC STRUCTURE;

EID: 0034024092     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004420051011     Document Type: Article

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