Selection against instability: Stable subgraphs are most frequent in empirical food webs

Oikos

Volumn 124, Issue 12, 2015, Pages 1583-1588

  Borrelli, Jonathan J ^a  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATABASE; DIAGRAM; FOOD WEB; FRESHWATER ENVIRONMENT; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; NUMERICAL MODEL; TERRESTRIAL ENVIRONMENT;

EID: 84955213037     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: 16000706     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/oik.02176     Document Type: Article

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