Food-web assembly and collapse: Mathematical models and implications for conservation

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 364, Issue 1524, 2009, Pages 1643-1646

  May, Robert M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

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Indexed keywords

FOOD WEB; NATURE CONSERVATION; NUMERICAL MODEL;

EID: 67650236881     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2008.0280     Document Type: Review

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