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The predator-prey power law: Biomass scaling across terrestrial and aquatic biomes

The predator-prey power law: Biomass scaling across terrestrial and aquatic biomes

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The predator-prey power law: Biomass scaling across terrestrial and aquatic biomes

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The predator-prey power law: Biomass scaling across terrestrial and aquatic biomes

Publisher

United States: American Association for the Advancement of Science

Journal title

Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science), 2015-09, Vol.349 (6252), p.1070-1070

Language

English

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United States: American Association for the Advancement of Science

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Contents

Despite the huge diversity of ecological communities, they can have unexpected patterns in common. Hatton
et al.
describe a general scaling law that relates total predator and prey biomass in terrestrial and aquatic animal communities (see the Perspective by Cebrian). They draw on data from many thousands of population counts of animal commun...

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The predator-prey power law: Biomass scaling across terrestrial and aquatic biomes

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TN_cdi_hal_primary_oai_HAL_hal_02959889v1

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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_hal_primary_oai_HAL_hal_02959889v1

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ISSN

0036-8075

E-ISSN

1095-9203

DOI

10.1126/science.aac6284

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