Simple rules describe bottom-up and top-down control in food webs with alternative energy pathways

Ecology Letters

Volumn 15, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 935-946

  Wollrab, Sabine ^a   Diehl, Sebastian ^a,b   De Roos, André M ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Bottom up control; Dynamical model; Energy channel; Enrichment; Food chain length; Food web; Harvesting; Indirect effects; Top down control; Topology

Indexed keywords

ALTERNATIVE ENERGY; BOTTOM-UP CONTROL; DETRITIVORY; ENERGY BUDGET; FOOD CHAIN; FOOD WEB; GENERALIST; GUILD STRUCTURE; NUMERICAL MODEL; NUTRIENT ENRICHMENT; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; TOP-DOWN CONTROL; TOPOLOGY;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ECOSYSTEM; ENERGY METABOLISM; FOOD CHAIN; FORECASTING; HUMAN; PLANT; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ANIMALS; ECOSYSTEM; ENERGY METABOLISM; FOOD CHAIN; FORECASTING; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PLANTS;

EID: 84863997670     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: 14610248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2012.01823.x     Document Type: Article

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