Measurement of interaction strength in nature

Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics

Volumn 36, Issue , 2005, Pages 419-444

  Wootton, J Timothy ^a   Emmerson, Mark ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Allometry; Energy flow; Food web; Modeling; Scale

Indexed keywords

ALLOMETRY; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; ENERGY FLOW; INTERSPECIFIC INTERACTION;

EID: 30344447287     PISSN: 00664162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.ecolsys.36.091704.175535     Document Type: Review

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