Food-web assembly during a classic biogeographic study: Species' "trophic breadth" corresponds to colonization order

Oikos

Volumn 117, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 665-674

  Piechnik, Denise A ^a,b,c   Lawler, Sharon P ^b   Martinez, Neo D ^d,e  

^a SAN FRANCISCO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTHROPOD; BIOGEOGRAPHY; BIOLOGICAL SURVEY; COLONIZATION; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; COMPLEXITY; FOOD WEB; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; TROPHIC CONDITIONS;

ARTHROPODA;

EID: 42949102461     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: 16000706     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0030-1299.2008.15915.x     Document Type: Article

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