Species-area relationships across four trophic levels - decreasing island size truncates food chains

Ecography

Volumn 37, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 443-453

  Roslin, Tomas ^a   Várkonyi, Gergely ^b   Koponen, Martti ^c   Vikberg, Veli ^d   Nieminen, Marko ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b FINNISH ENVIRONMENT INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^c Tuoppitie 5 C   (Finland)

^d Metapopulation Research Group Dept of Biosciences ^*  (Finland)

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EID: 84899939226     PISSN: 09067590     EISSN: 16000587     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0587.2013.00218.x     Document Type: Article

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