Timing and abundance as key mechanisms affecting trophic interactions in variable environments

Ecology Letters

Volumn 8, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 952-958

  Durant, Joël M ^a   Hjermann, Dag Ø ^a   Anker Nilssen, Tycho ^b   Beaugrand, Grégory ^c   Mysterud, Atle ^a   Pettorelli, Nathalie ^a   Stenseth, Nils Chr ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE FOR NATURE RESEARCH   (Norway)

^c CNRS   (France)

^d INSTITUTE OF MARINE RESEARCH   (Norway)

Author keywords

Fish; Mammals; Match mismatch; Plankton; Seabirds; Vegetation

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; RECRUITMENT; TROPHIC INTERACTION;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 24344500916     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2005.00798.x     Document Type: Article

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