Representing Variable Habitat Quality in a Spatial Food Web Model

Ecosystems

Volumn 17, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 1397-1412

  Christensen, Villy ^a   Coll, Marta ^b,c,d   Steenbeek, Jeroen ^b,d   Buszowski, Joe ^d   Chagaris, Dave ^e   Walters, Carl J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (France)

^c INSTITUT DE CIÈNCIES DEL MAR   (Spain)

^d Ecopath International Initiative Research Association   (Spain)

^e FLORIDA MARINE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

ecopath; ecospace; food web model; foraging capacity model; habitat modeling; sampling; simulation model; species distribution model

Indexed keywords

FOOD WEB; GLOBAL CHANGE; HABITAT QUALITY; HABITAT STRUCTURE; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; NATURAL RESOURCE; SAMPLING;

EID: 85027925630     PISSN: 14329840     EISSN: 14350629     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10021-014-9803-3     Document Type: Article

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