Timescale hierarchy determines the indirect effects of fluctuating subsidy inputs on in situ resources

American Naturalist

Volumn 173, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 200-211

  Takimoto, Gaku ^a   Iwata, Tomoya ^b   Murakami, Masashi ^c  

^a TOHO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF YAMANASHI   (Japan)

^c HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Allochthonous resource; Apparent competition; Apparent mutualism; Press perturbation; Temporal and spatial variation; Timescale separation

Indexed keywords

FOOD WEB; MUTUALISM; NUMERICAL METHOD; NUMERICAL MODEL; PERTURBATION; SPATIAL VARIATION;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FOOD CHAIN; TIME;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FOOD CHAIN; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 61849171829     PISSN: 00030147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/595759     Document Type: Article

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