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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United States: American Association for the Advancement of Science
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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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0036-8075
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1095-9203
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10.1126/science.aac6284