Maximal feeding with active prey-switching: A kill-the-winner functional response and its effect on global diversity and biogeography

Progress in Oceanography

Volumn 120, Issue , 2014, Pages 93-109

  Vallina, S M ^a,b   Ward, B A ^a,c   Dutkiewicz, S ^a   Follows, M J ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b INSTITUT DE CIÈNCIES DEL MAR   (Spain)

^c ECOLE NORMALE SUPÉRIEURE   (France)

Author keywords

Ecosystem diversity; Foodweb stability; Ocean modeling; Zooplankton grazing

Indexed keywords

COMPETITIVE ABILITY; ECOSYSTEM DIVERSITY; FOOD WEBS; FUNCTIONAL RESPONSE; OCEAN MODEL; PHYTOPLANKTON DIVERSITIES; PHYTOPLANKTON SPECIES; ZOOPLANKTON GRAZING;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECOSYSTEMS; FEEDING; PHYTOPLANKTON; PLANKTON; SWITCHING;

SWITCHING; ECOLOGY;

BIOGEOGRAPHY; BIOMASS; COEXISTENCE; COMMUNITY RESPONSE; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; FEEDING; FOOD WEB; FUNCTIONAL RESPONSE; GRAZING; INGESTION RATE; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; NICHE BREADTH; NUTRIENT UPTAKE; PHYTOPLANKTON; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; PREY AVAILABILITY; PREY CAPTURE; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; ZOOPLANKTON; ABUNDANCE; BIODIVERSITY; COMPETITIVE ABILITY; EXCLUSION EXPERIMENT; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PREY SELECTION;

EID: 84891011756     PISSN: 00796611     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pocean.2013.08.001     Document Type: Article

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