Use of size-based production and stable isotope analyses to predict trophic transfer efficiencies and predator-prey body mass ratios in food webs

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 240, Issue , 2002, Pages 11-20

  Jennings, Simon ^a   Warr, Karema J ^a   Mackinson, Steve ^a  

^a Lowestoft Laboratory   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Body size; Diversity; Food web; Production; Stable isotope analysis; Transfer efficiency

Indexed keywords

ASSESSMENT METHOD; BODY SIZE; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; FOOD WEB; STABLE ISOTOPE; TROPHIC INTERACTION;

EID: 0037068761     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps240011     Document Type: Article

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