Food web ecology: Playing Jenga and beyond

Science

Volumn 309, Issue 5731, 2005, Pages 68-71

  De Ruiter, Peter C ^a   Wolters, Volkmar ^b   Moore, John C ^c   Winemiller, Kirk O ^d  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN COLORADO   (United States)

^d TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOOD WEB;

COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; FOOD WEB; LIFE HISTORY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SPECIES COMPOSITION; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; BODY SIZE; FISH; FOOD CHAIN; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PREDATION; TIME;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; BODY SIZE; ECOSYSTEM; FISHES; FOOD CHAIN; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 21644459348     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1096112     Document Type: Review

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