Effects of spatial scale of sampling on food web structure

Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 5, Issue 17, 2015, Pages 3769-3782

  Wood, Spencer A ^a,b   Russell, Roly ^c   Hanson, Dieta ^d   Williams, Richard J ^e   Dunne, Jennifer A ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Sandhill Institute   (Canada)

^d MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^e Mappr   (United States)

^f SANTA FE INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Complexity; Diet; Diversity; Predation; Sampling area; Scale dependence; Trophic interactions

Indexed keywords

EID: 84941170720     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20457758     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ece3.1640     Document Type: Article

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