Infectious food webs: In focus

Journal of Animal Ecology

Volumn 78, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 493-496

  Beckerman, Andrew P ^a   Petchey, Owen L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BODY SIZE; CONNECTIVITY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FOOD CONSUMPTION; FOOD WEB; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTION; LAKE ECOSYSTEM; NESTEDNESS; PELAGIC ENVIRONMENT; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; SPECIES RICHNESS; TROPHIC LEVEL;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL PARASITOSIS; ARCTIC; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FOOD CHAIN; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; PREDATION;

ANIMALS; ARCTIC REGIONS; FOOD CHAIN; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PARASITIC DISEASES, ANIMAL; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR;

EID: 63849272000     PISSN: 00218790     EISSN: 13652656     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2656.2009.01538.x     Document Type: Article

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