The more food webs change, the more they stay the same

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 364, Issue 1524, 2009, Pages 1789-1801

  McCann, Kevin Shear ^a   Rooney, Neil ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

Author keywords

Adaptive food webs; Fast and slow pathways; Mobile consumers; Stability; Trophic structure; Variability

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; FOOD WEB; SPATIAL VARIATION; TEMPORAL VARIATION; THEORETICAL STUDY; TROPHIC STRUCTURE;

EID: 67650245842     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2008.0273     Document Type: Article

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