Unified spatial scaling of species and their trophic interactions

Nature

Volumn 428, Issue 6979, 2004, Pages 167-171

  Brose, Ulrich ^a,b,d   Ostling, Annette ^c   Harrison, Kateri ^b   Martinez, Neo D ^b  

^a SAN FRANCISCO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ROCKY MOUNTAIN BIOLOGICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d DARMSTADT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; FOOD PRODUCTS; LAKES;

LANDSCAPES; MACROECOLOGY;

ECOLOGY;

HABITAT AVAILABILITY; SCALE EFFECT; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TROPHIC INTERACTION;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; ECOLOGY; FOOD WEB; HABITAT STRUCTURE; LAKE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MICROCOSM; MODEL; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; STREAM (RIVER); THEORY; TROPHIC CASCADE;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; ECOLOGY; FOOD CHAIN; FRESH WATER; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 1642332992     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature02297     Document Type: Article

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