Success and its limits among structural models of complex food webs

Journal of Animal Ecology

Volumn 77, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 512-519

  Williams, Richard J ^a,b   Martinez, Neo D ^b  

^a MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

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

Author keywords

Ecological networks; Intervality; Network structure; Predator prey network

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONNECTIVITY; DIET; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; FOOD WEB; HERBIVORE; NICHE; OMNIVORY; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ECOLOGY; FOOD CHAIN; METHODOLOGY;

ANIMALS; ECOLOGY; FOOD CHAIN; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 42149129565     PISSN: 00218790     EISSN: 13652656     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2656.2008.01362.x     Document Type: Article

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