Temporally varying resources amplify the importance of resource input in ecological populations

Biology Letters

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1067-1069

  Hastings, Alan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Allochthonous inputs; Life histories; Persistence; Resource pulses

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; LIFE HISTORY; RESOURCE AVAILABILITY; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TIMESCALE;

EID: 84869787344     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2012.0669     Document Type: Article

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