Human impacts on minimum subsets of species critical for maintaining ecosystem structure

Basic and Applied Ecology

Volumn 14, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 623-629

  Isbell, Forest ^a   Loreau, Michel ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and Paul Sabatier University   (France)

Author keywords

Conservation; Control theory; Fishing; Food web; Marine; Network theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 84889570514     PISSN: 14391791     EISSN: 16180089     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.baae.2013.09.001     Document Type: Article

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