Inducible defences prevent strong population fluctuations in bi- and tritrophic food chains

Ecology Letters

Volumn 7, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 1143-1148

  Verschoor, Antonie M ^a   Vos, Matthijs ^a   Van Der Stap, Irene ^a  

^a NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY NIOO KNAW   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Coexistence; Extinctions; Food quality; Induced defences; Paradox of energy enrichment; Paradox of enrichment; Population cycles; Predator prey interactions; Stoichiometry

Indexed keywords

FOOD CHAIN; FOOD QUALITY; MODEL VALIDATION; NUTRIENT AVAILABILITY; PLANKTON; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION;

ALGAE;

EID: 9944243706     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2004.00675.x     Document Type: Article

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