Food-web models predict species abundances in response to habitat change

PLoS Biology

Volumn 4, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 1869-1873

  Gotelli, Nicholas J ^a   Ellison, Aaron M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECOLOGICAL SPECIALIZATION; FOOD WEB; HABITAT SELECTION; NONHUMAN; PLANT; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; SPECIES HABITAT; ANIMAL; BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENT; EVALUATION; FOOD CHAIN; INVERTEBRATE; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PREDATION; SARRACENIACEAE;

ANIMALIA; INVERTEBRATA; SARRACENIA PURPUREA; SARRACENIACEAE;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENT; EVALUATION STUDIES; FOOD CHAIN; INVERTEBRATES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PLANT PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; SARRACENIACEAE;

EID: 33750259694     PISSN: 15457885     EISSN: 15457885     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040324     Document Type: Article

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