Consumer-resource dynamics: Quantity, quality, and allocation

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Getz, Wayne M ^a,b   Owen Smith, Norman ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

^c UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; CONSUMER; CONTROLLED STUDY; FOOD WEB; GROWTH RATE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; OSCILLATION; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; POPULATION DENSITY DEPENDENCE; POPULATION EXPOSURE; POPULATION GROWTH; PROCESS DEVELOPMENT; PROCESS MODEL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SEASONAL POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEASONAL VARIATION; STOCHASTIC MODEL; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; ECOSYSTEM; FOOD CHAIN; HUMAN; MORTALITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEASON;

ANIMALS; ECOSYSTEM; FOOD CHAIN; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MORTALITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEASONS;

EID: 79251637523     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0014539     Document Type: Article

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