Searching for keystones in ecological networks

Oikos

Volumn 99, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 607-612

  Jordán, Ferenc ^a,b   Scheuring, István ^a  

^a EÖTVÖS LORÁND UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

^b NATURAL ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH COUNCIL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY ECOLOGY; KEYSTONE SPECIES;

EID: 0036954356     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1600-0706.2002.11889.x     Document Type: Review

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