Quantitative patterns in the structure of model and empirical food webs

Ecology

Volumn 86, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 1301-1311

  Stouffer, D B ^a   Camacho, J ^a,b   Guimera R ^a   Ng, C A ^a   Nunes Amaral, L A ^a  

^a Northwestern University   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Complex networks; Food webs, model vs. empirical; Food web patterns; Food web structure; Network structure; Scaling; Universality

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY ECOLOGY; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; FOOD WEB; NESTEDNESS; NICHE;

EID: 18444378174     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/04-0957     Document Type: Article

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