Testing the productive-space hypothesis: Rational and power

Oecologia

Volumn 153, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 973-984

  Post, David M ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ecosystem size; Food chain length; Power; Productive space hypothesis; Resource availability; Type 1 error; Type 2 error

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL PRODUCTION; BIOMASS POWER; COMMUNITY ECOLOGY; DATA SET; ECOSYSTEM APPROACH; ERROR ANALYSIS; FOOD CHAIN; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; LAKE ECOSYSTEM; RESOURCE AVAILABILITY; TEMPERATE ENVIRONMENT;

ARTICLE; ECOSYSTEM; FOOD CHAIN; METHODOLOGY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ECOSYSTEM; FOOD CHAIN; MODELS, THEORETICAL; RESEARCH DESIGN;

EID: 34548595211     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-007-0798-8     Document Type: Article

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