Predicting the effects of temperature on food web connectance

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 365, Issue 1549, 2010, Pages 2081-2091

  Petchey, Owen L ^a   Brose, Ulrich ^b   Rall, Björn C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b DARMSTADT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Activation energy; Allometric diet breadth model; Body size; Foraging; Functional response

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATION ENERGY; BODY SIZE; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; DIET; FOOD WEB; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; FUNCTIONAL RESPONSE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

CLIMATE CHANGE; FOOD CHAIN; TEMPERATURE; THEORETICAL MODEL;

CLIMATE CHANGE; FOOD CHAIN; MODELS, THEORETICAL; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 77954727832     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2010.0011     Document Type: Article

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