Food web models: A plea for groups

Ecology Letters

Volumn 12, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 652-662

  Allesina, Stefano ^a   Pascual, Mercedes ^b  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Akaike information criterion; Clustering algorithm; Compartment; Connectance; Food web model; Group; Likelihood; Model selection; Species richness; Trophic role; Trophospecies

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; ECOSYSTEM STRUCTURE; FOOD WEB; SPECIES RICHNESS; TROPHIC LEVEL;

ALGORITHM; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; FOOD CHAIN; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; FOOD CHAIN; MODELS, THEORETICAL;

EID: 66749161576     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: 14610248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2009.01321.x     Document Type: Article

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