Sequentially assembled food webs and extremum principles in ecosystem ecology

Journal of Animal Ecology

Volumn 75, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 377-386

  Virgo, Nathaniel ^a   Law, Richard ^a   Emmerson, Mark ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Ascendency; Goal function; Invasion resistance; Permanence; Succession

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY ECOLOGY; FOOD WEB; SUCCESSION;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOMASS; ECOSYSTEM; FOOD CHAIN; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; BIOMASS; ECOSYSTEM; FOOD CHAIN; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 33645387518     PISSN: 00218790     EISSN: 13652656     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2656.2006.01058.x     Document Type: Article

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