Food-chain length and adaptive foraging

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 276, Issue 1670, 2009, Pages 3113-3121

  Kondoh, Michio ^a,b   Ninomiya, Kunihiko ^c  

^a RYUKOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^c KANAZAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Adaptive foraging; Energy limitation hypothesis; Food web; Food chain length

Indexed keywords

FOOD CHAIN; FOOD WEB; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; MICROCOSM; PREDICTION; RECONSTRUCTION; RESOURCE AVAILABILITY; THEORETICAL STUDY;

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; FOOD CHAIN; FOOD CHAIN LENGTH; FOOD WEB; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; HABITAT STRUCTURE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES RICHNESS; THEORETICAL MODEL;

EID: 68849102203     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2009.0482     Document Type: Article

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