Food-web topology varies with spatial scale in a patchy environment

Ecology

Volumn 86, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 1916-1925

  Thompson, Ross M ^a,b   Townsend, Colin R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Connectance; Ecosystem size; Food web; Productivity; South Island, new Zealand; Spatial scale; Species richness; Stream patch vs. Reach; Streams

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL PRODUCTION; FOOD WEB; PATCHINESS; SCALE EFFECT; STREAM; TROPHIC STRUCTURE;

AUSTRALASIA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; NEW ZEALAND; SOUTH ISLAND; WORLD;

EID: 21744433230     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/04-1352     Document Type: Article

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