Improving nature conservancy strategies by ecological network theory

Basic and Applied Ecology

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 1-5

  Brose, Ulrich ^a  

^a Department of Biology ^*  (Germany)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Cascading extinctions; Ecosystem functioning; Food webs; Secondary extinctions

Indexed keywords

EID: 75949108386     PISSN: 14391791     EISSN: 16180089     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.baae.2009.11.003     Document Type: Article

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