Topological properties of food webs: From real data to community assembly models

Oikos

Volumn 102, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 614-622

  Montoya, Jose M ^a,b   Solé, Ricard V ^a,c  

^a INSTITUCIÓ CATALANA DE RECERCA I ESTUDIS AVANÇATS ICREA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALCALÁ   (Spain)

^c SANTA FE INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASSEMBLY RULE; COMMUNITY ECOLOGY; CONNECTIVITY; FOOD WEB; SPECIES RICHNESS;

EID: 0041731730     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1600-0706.2003.12031.x     Document Type: Article

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