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Isotopic evidence for the spatial heterogeneity of the planktonic food webs in the transition zone between river and lake ecosystems [PDF]
PeerJ, 2013 Resources and organisms in food webs are distributed patchily. The spatial structure of food webs is important and critical to understanding their overall structure.
Hideyuki Doi +6 more
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Classroom Activity: Food Webs [PDF]
, 2011 This lesson plan is designed to help students understand the interrelatedness of food webs and to see how populations of organisms affect each other. Students assume the roles of the various organisms in the ecosystem; the ones that are dependent upon ...
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Energy and biomass distribution in soil food webs of temperate and tropical forests [PDF]
Nature CommunicationsSoil food webs channel most of the energy in terrestrial ecosystems. Temperate and tropical forests host different soil invertebrate communities, but consequent differences in the structure and functioning of soil food webs between these major biomes ...
Anton M. Potapov +13 more
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Individual diet variability shapes the architecture of Antarctic benthic food webs [PDF]
Scientific ReportsAntarctic biodiversity is affected by seasonal sea-ice dynamics driving basal resource availability. To (1) determine the role of intraspecific dietary variability in structuring benthic food webs sustaining Antarctic biodiversity, and (2) understand how
Simona Sporta Caputi +6 more
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Ecology and Evolution, 2021 Almost all organisms grow in size during their lifetime and switch diets, trophic positions, and interacting partners as they grow. Such ontogenetic development introduces life‐history stages and flows of biomass between the stages through growth and ...
Etsuko Nonaka, Anna Kuparinen
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Microbiology Spectrum, 2023 Microbial food webs are drivers of material circulation and energy flow in lake ecosystems. The structural shifting of microbial food webs has important implications for the function of lake ecosystems.
Ping Guo +3 more
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Modelling size structured food webs using a modified niche model with two predator traits. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2014 The structure of food webs is frequently described using phenomenological stochastic models. A prominent example, the niche model, was found to produce artificial food webs resembling real food webs according to a range of summary statistics.
Jan Klecka
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Geophysical templates modulate the structure of stream food webs dominated by omnivory
Ecosphere, 2021 Food webs show the architecture of trophic relationships, revealing the biodiversity and species interactions in an ecosystem. Understanding which factors modulate the structure of food webs offers us the ability to predict how they will change when ...
Lauren Zatkos +3 more
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Designing (for) Urban Food Webs
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2021 Interest is growing in designing resilient and ecologically rich urban environments that provide social and ecological benefits. Regenerative and biocentric designs fostering urban ecological habitats including food webs that provide ecosystem services ...
Alexander J. Felson +3 more
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