Size constraints in a real food web: Predator, parasite and prey body-size relationships

Oikos

Volumn 99, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 443-456

  Leaper, Rebecca ^a   Huxham, Mark ^b  

^a THE LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^b EDINBURGH NAPIER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BODY SIZE; COMMUNITY ECOLOGY; FOOD WEB; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTION; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; TROPHIC CASCADE;

EID: 0036955195     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1600-0706.2002.10888.x     Document Type: Article

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