Evidence for the existence of a robust pattern of prey selection in food webs

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 274, Issue 1621, 2007, Pages 1931-1940

  Stouffer, Daniel B ^a   Camacho, Juan ^a,c   Jiang, Wenxin ^b   Amaral, Luís A Nunes ^a  

^a Northwestern University   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Complex networks; Food webs; Food web structure; Network motifs; Prey selection

Indexed keywords

ECOSYSTEM MODELING; FOOD WEB; NICHE; PREDATION; PREY SELECTION; TROPHIC INTERACTION;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FOOD WEB; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PREDATION; PREY SELECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 34547215911     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2007.0571     Document Type: Article

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