Are high Arctic terrestrial food chains really that simple? - The Bear Island food web revisited

Oikos

Volumn 106, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 427-431

  Hodkinson, Ian D ^a   Coulson, Stephen J ^a  

^a LIVERPOOL JOHN MOORES UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCTIC ENVIRONMENT; FOOD CHAIN; FOOD WEB; PRIMARY PRODUCTION;

ARCTIC; SPITSBERGEN; SVALBARD; SVALBARD AND JAN MAYEN;

HEXAPODA; INSECTA;

EID: 4043173509     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0030-1299.2004.13091.x     Document Type: Review

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