Integrating food web diversity, structure and stability

Trends in Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 40-46

  Rooney, Neil ^a,b   McCann, Kevin S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

^b Saugeen Ojibway Nation   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; CONSERVATION PLANNING; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; ECOSYSTEM SERVICE; EXTINCTION RISK; FOOD WEB; PLANET; SKEWNESS; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

EID: 84455199711     PISSN: 01695347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tree.2011.09.001     Document Type: Review

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