Weak trophic interactions and the balance of enriched metacommunities

Journal of Theoretical Biology

Volumn 247, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 337-345

  Maser, Gabriel L ^a   Guichard, Frédéric ^a   McCann, Kevin S ^b  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

Author keywords

Food web dynamics; Metacommunities; Spatially explicit model; Stability; Synchrony

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; DISPERSAL; FOOD WEB; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; STABILIZATION; SYNCHRONY; TROPHIC INTERACTION;

ARTICLE; COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; ECOSYSTEM; FOOD WEB; POPULATION DISPERSAL; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION STRUCTURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ANIMALS; ECOSYSTEM; FOOD CHAIN; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

EID: 34249799628     PISSN: 00225193     EISSN: 10958541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtbi.2007.03.003     Document Type: Article

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