Effects of Adaptive Foragers on the Diversity and Functioning of Assembled Model Communities

Previous research suggests that prey-switching behavior by consumers (adaptive foraging) contributes to the stability of food web networks and may help explain the apparent contradiction between the complexity of natural ecosystems and theory that suggests such complex systems should be unstable. Ho...

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Main Author: Tarantino, William J.
Format: Others
Language:English
Published: W&M ScholarWorks 2008
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Online Access:https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539617861
https://scholarworks.wm.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2991&context=etd