Size, foraging, and food web structure

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 105, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 4191-4196

  Petchey, Owen L ^a   Beckerman, Andrew P ^a   Riede, Jens O ^b   Warren, Philip H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b DARMSTADT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Body size; Complexity; Connectance

Indexed keywords

ALLOMETRY; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BIOLOGICAL TRAIT; BODY SIZE; DECISION MAKING; DIET; FEEDING; FOOD WEB; FORAGING; HERBIVORE; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; HYPOTHESIS; MODEL; NATURAL SELECTION; NONHUMAN; PARASITOID; PHENOMENOLOGY; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; FOOD CHAIN;

ANIMALS; FOOD CHAIN; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 41949128393     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0710672105     Document Type: Article

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