Food web complexity and higher-level ecosystem services

Ecology Letters

Volumn 6, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 587-593

  Montoya, José M ^a,b   Rodríguez, Miguel A ^a   Hawkins, Bradford A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALCALÁ   (Spain)

^b INST MUNIC D INVESTIGACIO MEDICA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Clustering; Ecosystem function; Food web structure; Higher level interactions; Indirect effects; Omnivory; Parasitoids

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; COMPLEXITY; FOOD WEB; HERBIVORE; PARASITOID; SPECIES RICHNESS;

EID: 0037742719     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1461-0248.2003.00469.x     Document Type: Article

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