Do edge responses cascade up or down a multi-trophic food web?

Ecology Letters

Volumn 14, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 863-870

  Wimp, Gina M ^a   Murphy, Shannon M ^b   Lewis, Danny ^a   Ries, Leslie ^c  

^a GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DENVER   (United States)

^c Bldg 142   (United States)

Author keywords

Ecological boundary; Ecotone; Edge effects; Habitat fragmentation; Predictive model; Resource distribution

Indexed keywords

EID: 84931748988     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: 14610248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2011.01656.x     Document Type: Article

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