Species' traits and food-web complexity interactively affect a food web's response to press disturbance

Ecosphere

Volumn 7, Issue 11, 2016, Pages

  Wootton, K L ^a,b   Stouffer, D B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

^b SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Degree; Extinction; Resistance; Stability; Trophic level

Indexed keywords

EID: 84995603195     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21508925     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ecs2.1518     Document Type: Review

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