Non-omnivorous generality promotes population stability

Biology Letters

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 374-377

  Romanuk, Tamara N ^a,b,c   Beisner, Beatrix E ^b   Martinez, Neo D ^a   Kolasa, Jurek ^c  

^a Pacific Ecoinformatics and Computational Ecology Lab   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^c MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Generality; Omnivory; Population dynamics; Rock pools; Stable isotope analysis; Zooplankton

Indexed keywords

CARBON 13; NITROGEN 15;

ABUNDANCE; CARBON; CENSUS; DIET; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; MEIOFAUNA; ROCK POOL; STABLE ISOTOPE;

ANIMAL TISSUE; AQUATIC ENVIRONMENT; ARTICLE; CARBON SOURCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; FEEDING ECOLOGY; FOOD WEB; ISOTOPE ANALYSIS; MACROFAUNA; MEIOFAUNA; NONHUMAN; OMNIVORY; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; POPULATION RESEARCH; POPULATION STRUCTURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TAXONOMY;

EID: 33748640956     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2006.0464     Document Type: Article

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