High frequency of functional extinctions in ecological networks

Nature

Volumn 499, Issue 7459, 2013, Pages 468-470

  Säterberg, Torbjörn ^a   Sellman, Stefan ^a   Ebenman, Bo ^a  

^a LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; ANALYTICAL FRAMEWORK; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; EXTINCTION; FOOD WEB; MORTALITY; PERSISTENCE; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONSERVATION BIOLOGY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECOLOGICAL NICHE; ECOSYSTEM; EFFECT SIZE; FOOD CHAIN; FOOD WEB; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; POPULATION DENSITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES EXTINCTION; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ANIMALS; BIOMASS; BODY SIZE; BODY WEIGHT; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECOLOGY; EXTINCTION, BIOLOGICAL; FOOD CHAIN; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; POPULATION DENSITY; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 84881172447     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature12277     Document Type: Article

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