Scaling from individuals to networks in food webs

Functional Ecology

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 44-51

  Stouffer, Daniel B ^a,b  

^a DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION BIOLOGY   (Spain)

^b Northwestern University   (United States)

Author keywords

Food webs; Network theory; Phenomenological models; Population level models; Theoretical ecology

Indexed keywords

BODY SIZE; FOOD WEB; POPULATION ECOLOGY; PREY SELECTION;

EID: 73949103816     PISSN: 02698463     EISSN: 13652435     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2435.2009.01644.x     Document Type: Article

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