Food-web aggregation, methodological and functional issues

Oikos

Volumn 122, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 1606-1615

  Gauzens, Benoît ^a   Legendre, Stéphane ^a   Lazzaro, Xavier ^c   Lacroix, Gérard ^a,b  

^a ECOLE NORMALE SUPÉRIEURE   (France)

^b ÉCOLE NORMALE SUPÉRIEURE   (France)

^c UNIVERSIDAD MAYOR DE SAN SIMÓN   (Bolivia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGGREGATION; DATA; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; FOOD WEB; FUNCTIONAL ROLE; MODELING; PERCEPTION; TAXONOMY; TOPOLOGY;

EID: 84886240903     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: 16000706     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0706.2013.00266.x     Document Type: Article

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