Predicting food-web structure with metacommunity models

Oikos

Volumn 122, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 492-506

  Baiser, Benjamin ^a   Buckley, Hannah L ^b   Gotelli, Nicholas J ^c   Ellison, Aaron M ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b LINCOLN UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARNIVOROUS PLANT; FOOD WEB; META-ANALYSIS; PLANT COMMUNITY; PREDICTION; TROPHIC LEVEL;

SARRACENIA; SARRACENIA PURPUREA; SARRACENIACEAE;

EID: 84875584020     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: 16000706     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0706.2012.00005.x     Document Type: Article

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