Consumer movement through differentially subsidized habitats creates a spatial food web with unexpected results

Ecology Letters

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 329-332

  Callaway, Duncan S ^a   Hastings, Alan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Allochthonous input; Food web; Metacommunity; Spatial subsidy; Stability

Indexed keywords

ALLOCHTHON; COMMUNITY ECOLOGY; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; FOOD WEB;

EID: 0036103030     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1461-0248.2002.00330.x     Document Type: Article

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