Biodiversity maintenance in food webs with regulatory environmental feedbacks

Journal of Theoretical Biology

Volumn 245, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 705-714

  Bagdassarian, Carey K ^a   Dunham, Amy E ^b   Brown, Christopher G ^a   Rauscher, Daniel ^a  

^a The College of William and Mary   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Environmental feedbacks; Food webs; Niche model; Predator prey dynamics; Species persistence

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; AUTOTROPHY; BIODIVERSITY; DEEP-SEA BENTHOS; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; FEEDBACK MECHANISM; FOOD WEB; NICHE; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; SOIL ECOSYSTEM;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; AUTOTROPH; BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION BIOLOGY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECOLOGICAL NICHE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FOOD WEB; NONHUMAN; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PREDATOR PREY INTERACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; SPECIES EXTINCTION;

ADAPTATION, BIOLOGICAL; ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; AUTOTROPHIC PROCESSES; BIODIVERSITY; BIOMASS; EXTINCTION, BIOLOGICAL; FEEDBACK; FOOD CHAIN; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 33947385426     PISSN: 00225193     EISSN: 10958541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtbi.2006.12.017     Document Type: Article

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