Interaction strengths and spatial scale in community ecology: Simulated quadrat-sampling and confinement experiments involving animals of different mobilities

Ecological Modelling

Volumn 144, Issue 2-3, 2001, Pages 139-152

  Mac Nally, R ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Community matrix; Ecological scale; Grazing

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY ECOLOGY; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; INTERSPECIFIC INTERACTION; MATRIX;

EID: 0035888781     PISSN: 03043800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3800(01)00367-2     Document Type: Article

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