Food webs in space: On the interplay of dynamic instability and spatial processes

Ecological Research

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 261-273

  Holt, Robert D ^a  

^a University of Florida ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Food chain length; Metacommunity; Spatial flows; Spatial food web ecology

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY ECOLOGY; FOOD CHAIN; FOOD WEB; INSTABILITY; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; TROPHIC INTERACTION;

EID: 0038579281     PISSN: 09123814     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1440-1703.2002.00485.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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