Food web structure and habitat loss

Ecology Letters

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 37-46

  Melián, Carlos J ^a   Bascompte, Jordi ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION BIOLOGY   (Spain)

Author keywords

Apparent competition; Habitat destruction; Indirect interactions; Intraguild predation; Metacommunity; Omnivory

Indexed keywords

EXTINCTION RISK; FOOD WEB; HABITAT LOSS; INTERSPECIFIC INTERACTION;

EID: 0036168836     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1461-0248.2002.00280.x     Document Type: Article

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