Effects of productivity, disturbance, and ecosystem size on food-chain length: Insights from a metacommunity model of intraguild predation

Ecological Research

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 481-493

  Takimoto, Gaku ^a   Post, David M ^b   Spiller, David A ^c   Holt, Robert D ^d  

^a TOHO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Disturbance; Ecosystem size; Food chain length; Intraguild predation; Metacommunity; Productivity

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL PRODUCTION; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; DISTURBANCE; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; FOOD CHAIN; INTRAGUILD PREDATION; LIMITING FACTOR; OMNIVORY; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION;

EID: 84861346964     PISSN: 09123814     EISSN: 14401703     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11284-012-0929-5     Document Type: Article

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