Food web cohesion

Ecology

Volumn 85, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 352-358

  Melián, Carlos J ^a   Bascompte, Jordi ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION BIOLOGY   (Spain)

Author keywords

Cohesion; Compartmentalization; Connectance; Food web structure; Null model; Subweb

Indexed keywords

COMPARTMENTALIZATION; CONNECTIVITY; ECOSYSTEM MODELING; FOOD WEB; TROPHIC STRUCTURE;

EID: 1542349779     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/02-0638     Document Type: Article

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