Complex shifts between food web states in response to whole-ecosystem manipulations

Oikos

Volumn 121, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 417-427

  Schröder, Arne ^a,b   Persson, Lennart ^a   de Roos, André M ^c  

^a UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; ECOSYSTEM DYNAMICS; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FOOD WEB; LAKE; PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSE; PHYTOPLANKTON; ZOOPLANKTON;

EID: 84857656789     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: 16000706     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0706.2011.19764.x     Document Type: Article

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