Variance in ecological consumer-resource interactions

Nature

Volumn 407, Issue 6802, 2000, Pages 370-374

  Benedetti Cecchi, Lisandro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECOLOGY; FOOD WEB; TROPHIC INTERACTION;

ARTICLE; CONSUMER; DYNAMICS; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; LITERATURE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ECOLOGY; FOOD CHAIN; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T;

EID: 0034699521     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/35030089     Document Type: Article

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