Food webs: Reconciling the structure and function of biodiversity

Trends in Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 27, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 689-697

  Thompson, Ross M ^a   Brose, Ulrich ^b   Dunne, Jennifer A ^c,f   Hall, Robert O ^d   Hladyz, Sally ^a   Kitching, Roger L ^e   Martinez, Neo D ^f   Rantala, Heidi ^g   Romanuk, Tamara N ^h   Stouffer, Daniel B ^i,j   Tylianakis, Jason M ^j  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^c SANTA FE INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

^e GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^f Pacific Ecoinformatics and Computational Ecology Lab   (United States)

^g SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^h DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

ⁱ DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION BIOLOGY   (Spain)

^j UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; ECOSYSTEM STRUCTURE; ENERGY FLUX; FOOD WEB; GLOBAL CHANGE; HABITAT LOSS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS;

ANIMAL; BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; FOOD CHAIN; PLANT; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; FOOD CHAIN; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PLANTS;

EID: 84868707621     PISSN: 01695347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tree.2012.08.005     Document Type: Review

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