Biodiversity loss, trophic skew and ecosystem functioning

Ecology Letters

Volumn 6, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 680-687

  Duffy, J Emmett ^a  

^a VIRGINIA INSTITUTE OF MARINE SCIENCE   (United States)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Conservation; Ecosystem functioning; Extinction; Trophic structure

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; EXTINCTION; TROPHIC STRUCTURE;

ANIMALIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0041627406     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1461-0248.2003.00494.x     Document Type: Review

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