Quantitative descriptors of food-web matrices

Ecology

Volumn 83, Issue 9, 2002, Pages 2394-2407

  Bersier, Louis Félix ^a,b   Banašek Richter, Carolin ^a   Cattin, Marie France ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEUCHÂTEL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FRIBOURG   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Chesapeake Bay (USA) mesohaline ecosystem; Connectance; Food web, quantitative descriptors; Information theory indices; Omnivory; Sampling effect; Shannon index; Trophic links

Indexed keywords

CONNECTIVITY; FOOD WEB; OMNIVORY; SAMPLING BIAS; TROPHIC LEVEL;

CHESAPEAKE BAY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0037800366     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/0012-9658(2002)083[2394:QDOFWM]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Review

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