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Simple rules yield complex food webs.
- Source :
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Nature . 3/9/2000, Vol. 404 Issue 6774, p180-183. 4p. 1 Diagram, 2 Charts, 8 Graphs. - Publication Year :
- 2000
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Abstract
- Shows that a simple model provides the mechanistic explanations missing from earlier empirical studies of food webs. Improvement of existing models of food webs by constraining species to consume a contiguous sequence of prey in a one-dimensional trophic niche; Prediction of key structural properties; Use of species numbers and connectance as empirical parameters.
- Subjects :
- *FOOD chains
*ECOLOGICAL niche
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00280836
- Volume :
- 404
- Issue :
- 6774
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Nature
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 2950936
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1038/35004572