A general model for food web structure

Science

Volumn 320, Issue 5876, 2008, Pages 658-661

  Allesina, Stefano ^a,b   Alonso, David ^a,c   Pascual, Mercedes ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR ECOLOGICAL ANALYSIS AND SYNTHESIS   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^d SANTA FE INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; ECOSYSTEM DYNAMICS; FOOD WEB; TOPOLOGY;

ARTICLE; ECOLOGICAL NICHE; ECOLOGY; FEEDING; FOOD WEB; NONHUMAN; PREDATOR PREY INTERACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES DOMINANCE; STATISTICAL MODEL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; FOOD CHAIN;

FOOD CHAIN; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 43249130522     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1156269     Document Type: Article

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