A cure for the plague of parameters: Constraining models of complex population dynamics with allometries

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 280, Issue 1770, 2013, Pages

  Hudson, Lawrence N ^a   Reuman, Daniel C ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Body size; Food webs; Metabolic theory; Predator prey; Trophic interactions

Indexed keywords

ALLOMETRY; BODY SIZE; COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; FOOD WEB; LAKE ECOSYSTEM; MODEL VALIDATION; PARAMETERIZATION; PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; TIME SERIES; TRITROPHIC INTERACTION;

ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOTA; ECOLOGY; EVALUATION STUDY; LAKE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PROCEDURES; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALS; BIOTA; ECOLOGY; LAKES; METHODS; MICHIGAN; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

EID: 84883789784     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2013.1901     Document Type: Article

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