Shorter food chain length in ancient lakes: evidence from a global synthesis.

Food webs may be affected by evolutionary processes, and effective evolutionary time ultimately affects the probability of species evolving to fill the niche space. Thus, ecosystem history may set important evolutionary constraints on community composition and food web structure. Food chain length (...

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Main Authors: Hideyuki Doi, M Jake Vander Zanden, Helmut Hillebrand
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3368915?pdf=render