Allometric degree distributions facilitate food-web stability

Nature

Volumn 450, Issue 7173, 2007, Pages 1226-1229

  Otto, Sonja B ^a   Rall, Björn C ^a   Brose, Ulrich ^a,b  

^a DARMSTADT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b Pacific Ecoinformatics and Computational Ecology Lab   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLOMETRY; BIOENERGETICS; BODY MASS; ENERGY FLUX; FEEDING; FOOD CHAIN; FOOD WEB; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

ALLOMETRY; ARTICLE; BIOENERGY; BODY MASS; FEEDING; FOOD CHAIN; FOOD WEB; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PREDATOR PREY INTERACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

EID: 37549008373     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature06359     Document Type: Article

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