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22 - Structural Instability of Food Webs and Food-Web Models and Their Implications for Management

from Part III - Food Webs and Environmental Sustainability

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 December 2017

John C. Moore
Affiliation:
Colorado State University
Peter C. de Ruiter
Affiliation:
Wageningen Universiteit, The Netherlands
Kevin S. McCann
Affiliation:
University of Guelph, Ontario
Volkmar Wolters
Affiliation:
Justus-Liebig-Universität Giessen, Germany
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Adaptive Food Webs
Stability and Transitions of Real and Model Ecosystems
, pp. 372 - 383
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2017

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