Seasonal subsidy stabilizes food web dynamics: Balance in a heterogeneous landscape

Ecological Research

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 433-439

  Takimoto, Gaku ^a   Iwata, Tomoya ^a   Murakami, Masashi ^b  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Allochthonous inputs; Mathematical models; Persistence; Seasonality; Temporal heterogeneity

Indexed keywords

ALLOCHTHON; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; FOOD WEB; SEASONALITY; STREAM;

EID: 0142096772     PISSN: 09123814     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1440-1703.2002.00502.x     Document Type: Article

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