Reliability characteristics of natural functional group interaction webs

Evolutionary Ecology Research

Volumn 6, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 1145-1166

  Davis, Andrew J ^a,c   Liu, Wei Chung ^b   Perner, Joerg ^a   Voigt, Winfried ^a  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Arthropods; Biodiversity; Ecosystem function; Grasslands; Plants; Structure; Topology

Indexed keywords

ARTHROPODA;

EID: 13144260741     PISSN: 15220613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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