Food-web interactions govern the resistance of communities after non-random extinctions

Nature

Volumn 429, Issue 6988, 2004, Pages 174-177

  Ives, Anthony R ^a   Cardinale, Bradley J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOSYSTEMS;

ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; FOOD-WEB INTERACTIONS; NON-RANDOM EXTINCTIONS;

ECOLOGY;

BIODIVERSITY; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; CONSERVATION; EXTINCTION; FOOD WEB; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONSERVATION BIOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM; FOOD WEB; NONHUMAN; POPULATION DENSITY; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES EXTINCTION; STRESS; SURVIVAL;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; FOOD; FOOD CHAIN; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PLANTS; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 2442719133     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature02515     Document Type: Article

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