Food-density-dependent inefficiency in animals with a gut as a stabilizing mechanism in trophic dynamics

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 276, Issue 1659, 2009, Pages 1147-1152

  Flynn, Kevin J ^a  

^a SWANSEA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Assimilation efficiency; Consumer growth dynamics; Food quality; Gut passage time; Predation kinetics

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; DENSITY DEPENDENCE; FOOD AVAILABILITY; FOOD CHAIN; FOOD SUPPLY; INGESTION RATE; PREDATION; TROPHIC INTERACTION;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 60049094072     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2008.1575     Document Type: Article

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