Interactive effects of body-size structure and adaptive foraging on food-web stability

Ecology Letters

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 243-250

  Heckmann, Lotta ^a   Drossel, Barbara ^a   Brose, Ulrich ^b   Guill, Christian ^b  

^a DARMSTADT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Body mass; Networks; Optimal foraging; Population dynamics; Predator prey; Simulation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84931749075     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: 14610248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2011.01733.x     Document Type: Article

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