Adaptive foraging and flexible food web topology

Evolutionary Ecology Research

Volumn 5, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 623-652

  Křivan, Vlastimil ^a   Schmitz, Oswald J ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF ENTOMOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

^b Yale School of the Environment   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive foraging; Food chain; Food web; Food web structure; Omnivory; Patch choice

Indexed keywords

EID: 1342330189     PISSN: 15220613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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