Metacommunity theory explains the emergence of food web complexity

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 108, Issue 48, 2011, Pages 19293-19298

  Pillai, Pradeep ^a   Gonzalez, Andrew ^a   Loreau, Michel ^a,b  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b Moulis   (France)

Author keywords

Patch dynamic models; Spatial ecology

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMMUNITY ECOLOGY; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; ENVIRONMENTAL RECOLONIZATION; FEEDING; FOOD WEB; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; METACOMMUNITY THEORY; NONHUMAN; OMNIVORE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES HABITAT; THEORY;

BIODIVERSITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECOSYSTEM; FOOD CHAIN; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

EID: 82755181533     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1106235108     Document Type: Article

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