Temperature, predator-prey interaction strength and population stability

Global Change Biology

Volumn 16, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 2145-2157

  Rall, BjÖrn C ^a   Vucic Pestic, Olivera ^a   Ehnes, Roswitha B ^a   EmmersoN, Mark ^b   Brose, Ulrich ^a  

^a DARMSTADT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Food webs; Global warming; Ingestion efficiency; Ingestion rates; Metabolic theory; Predation theory; Predator prey dynamics

Indexed keywords

FOOD WEB; GLOBAL CHANGE; GLOBAL WARMING; INGESTION RATE; METABOLISM; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

ARANEAE; ARTHROPODA; COLEOPTERA;

EID: 77954721272     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: 13652486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2009.02124.x     Document Type: Article

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