Scaling behaviors of weighted food webs as energy transportation networks

Journal of Theoretical Biology

Volumn 264, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 760-770

  Zhang, Jiang ^a   Guo, Liangpeng ^a  

^a BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Allometric scaling; Energy flow network; Power law

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ENERGY FLUX; FOOD WEB; METABOLISM;

ALGORITHM; ALLOMETRY; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; ENERGY METABOLISM; ENERGY TRANSFER; FLOW; FOOD WEB; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MATHEMATICAL VARIABLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES HABITAT; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTION;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONSERVATION OF ENERGY RESOURCES; ECOSYSTEM; FOOD CHAIN; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL;

EID: 77952891581     PISSN: 00225193     EISSN: 10958541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtbi.2010.03.024     Document Type: Article

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