Using food web dominator trees to catch secondary extinctions in action

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 364, Issue 1524, 2009, Pages 1725-1731

  Bodini, Antonio ^a   Bellingeri, Michele ^a   Allesina, Stefano ^b   Bondavalli, Cristina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

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

Author keywords

Dominator tree; Energy flow; Food web; Graph theory; Secondary extinction

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ECOSYSTEM MODELING; ENERGY FLOW; EXTINCTION; FISH; FOOD WEB; FORECASTING METHOD; PREDICTION; SURVIVAL; TOPOLOGY;

ARCTIC OCEAN; BARENTS SEA;

MALLOTUS (FISH); MALLOTUS VILLOSUS;

EID: 67650283805     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2008.0278     Document Type: Article

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