Cascading extinctions, functional complementarity, and selection in two-trophic-level model communities: A trait-based mechanistic approach

Journal of Theoretical Biology

Volumn 267, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 375-387

  Sapijanskas, Jurgis ^a,b   Loreau, Michel ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b AGROPARISTECH   (France)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Complementarity; Ecosystem functioning; Functional traits; Selection effect

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; COMPLEMENTARITY; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; ECOSYSTEM SERVICE; EXTINCTION; MODELING; SELECTION; TROPHIC LEVEL;

ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL TRAIT; BIOMASS DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENSITY GRADIENT; ECOLOGICAL NICHE; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION; INTRASPECIFIC VARIATION; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; POPULATION SIZE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; SPECIES EXTINCTION; TROPHIC CASCADE;

ALGORITHMS; BIODIVERSITY; BIOMASS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECOSYSTEM; EXTINCTION, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

EID: 77956877729     PISSN: 00225193     EISSN: 10958541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtbi.2010.08.031     Document Type: Article

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