Effects of enrichment on three-level food chains with omnivory

American Naturalist

Volumn 155, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 200-218

  Diehl, Sebastian ^a   Feißel, Margit ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Blepharisma; Coexistence; Invasibility; Multiple stable states; Protozoa; Tetrahymena

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; FOOD CHAIN; OMNIVORY; TROPHIC STRUCTURE;

BLEPHARISMA; TETRAHYMENA;

EID: 0034112567     PISSN: 00030147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/303319     Document Type: Article

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