Abundance-body mass relationships in size-structured food webs

Ecology Letters

Volumn 6, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 971-974

  Jennings, Simon ^a   Mackinson, Steve ^a  

^a CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Abundance body mass relationships; Energetic equivalence; Food web; Marine ecosystem; Scaling; Size spectra; Stable isotope analysis

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BODY MASS; FOOD WEB; SIZE STRUCTURE;

EID: 0242490192     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1461-0248.2003.00529.x     Document Type: Article

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