Parasites dominate food web links

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 103, Issue 30, 2006, Pages 11211-11216

  Lafferty, Kevin D ^a   Dobson, Andrew P ^b   Kuris, Armand M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Connectance; Parasitism; Predation; Trematode; Trophic

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; ECOSYSTEM; FOOD CHAIN; FOOD WEB; LIFESTYLE; NATURAL ENEMY; NONHUMAN; PARASITE; PARASITISM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES RICHNESS; STATISTICS; TREMATODE; TROPHIC LEVEL;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; BIOMASS; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM; EVOLUTION; FOOD CHAIN; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PARASITES; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 33746631236     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0604755103     Document Type: Article

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