Food-web complexity emerging from ecological dynamics on adaptive networks

Journal of Theoretical Biology

Volumn 247, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 819-826

  Garcia Domingo, Josep L ^a,b   Saldaña, Joan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GIRONA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIC CENTRAL UNIVERSITY OF CATALONIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Complexity; Food webs; Foraging adaptation; Scaling laws

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; COMPLEXITY; ECOLOGICAL APPROACH; ECOSYSTEM DYNAMICS; ECOSYSTEM MODELING; FOOD WEB; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; PERSISTENCE; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; TOPOLOGY;

ADAPTATION; ARTICLE; COMMUNITY; DYNAMICS; ECOLOGICAL NICHE; ECOLOGY; FOOD WEB; FORAGING; MODEL; PREDATOR PREY INTERACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECOSYSTEM; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FOOD CHAIN; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR;

EID: 34447509353     PISSN: 00225193     EISSN: 10958541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtbi.2007.04.011     Document Type: Article

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