Adaptation, density dependence and the responses of trophic level abundances to mortality

Evolutionary Ecology Research

Volumn 5, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 1113-1132

  Abrams, Peter A ^a   Vos, Matthijs ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY NIOO KNAW   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Adaptive foraging; Bottom up effect; Density dependence; Food web; Inducible defences; Top down effect; Tritrophic system

Indexed keywords

EID: 1842674757     PISSN: 15220613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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