The sensitivity of food web topology to temporal data aggregation

Ecological Modelling

Volumn 220, Issue 22, 2009, Pages 3141-3146

  Jordán, Ferenc ^a,b   Osváth, Györgyi ^c  

^a INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY   (Hungary)

^b DEPARTMENT OF ZOOLOGY   (Hungary)

^c EÖTVÖS LORÁND UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Aggregation; Food webs; Sensitivity; Time series; Topology

Indexed keywords

AGGREGATION; AVERAGE DISTANCE; AVERAGE SPEED; BETWEENNESS CENTRALITY; CONNECTANCE; DEGREE CENTRALITY; ECOLOGICAL NETWORK ANALYSIS; FOOD WEBS; GLOBAL NETWORKS; HIGH QUALITY; HIGHLY SENSITIVE; IN-NETWORK; INDIRECT EFFECTS; NETWORK INDICES; NETWORK MEASURES; SENSITIVITY; TEMPORAL AGGREGATION; TEMPORAL DATA;

ECOSYSTEMS; ELECTRIC NETWORK ANALYSIS; INTERCONNECTION NETWORKS; TIME SERIES; TOPOLOGY;

FOOD ADDITIVES;

COMPARATIVE STUDY; DATA ACQUISITION; ECOLOGICAL APPROACH; FOOD WEB; NETWORK ANALYSIS; SEASONAL VARIATION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TIME SERIES;

EID: 70350110227     PISSN: 03043800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2009.05.002     Document Type: Article

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