Drought rewires the cores of food webs

Nature Climate Change

Volumn 6, Issue 9, 2016, Pages 875-878

  Lu, Xueke ^a   Gray, Clare ^a,b   Brown, Lee E ^c   Ledger, Mark E ^d   Milner, Alexander M ^d   Mondragón, Raúl J ^a   Woodward, Guy ^b   Ma, Athen ^a  

^a QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DROUGHT; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECT; EXTINCTION RISK; FOOD WEB; FRESHWATER ECOSYSTEM;

EID: 84983651760     PISSN: 1758678X     EISSN: 17586798     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nclimate3002     Document Type: Article

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