Using experimental indices to quantify the strength of species interactions

Oikos

Volumn 119, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1057-1063

  Novak, Mark ^a   Wootton, J Timothy ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; ECOLOGICAL THEORY; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; INTERSPECIFIC INTERACTION; MUTUALISM; NUMERICAL METHOD; PREDATION;

EID: 77954593857     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: 16000706     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0706.2009.18147.x     Document Type: Article

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