Ecological food webs: High-quality data facilitate theoretical unification

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 100, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 1467-1468

  Brown, James H ^a   Gillooly, James F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; BODY SIZE; DATA ANALYSIS; ECOLOGY; ENERGY TRANSFER; FOOD WEB; LAKE ECOSYSTEM; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NOTE; PHYTOPLANKTON; PLANT GROWTH; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPATIAL AUTOCORRELATION ANALYSIS; SPECIES RICHNESS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; THEORY; ZOOPLANKTON;

ECOSYSTEM; FOOD CHAIN; MODELS, THEORETICAL;

EID: 0037452769     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0630310100     Document Type: Note

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