Food web networks: Scaling relation revisited

Ecological Complexity

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 323-338

  Allesina, Stefano ^a,b   Bodini, Antonio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

^b MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Allometry; Directed acyclic graphs; Ecological networks; Food webs; Scale invariant relations; Spanning trees

Indexed keywords

EID: 27744466884     PISSN: 1476945X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecocom.2005.05.001     Document Type: Note

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