Parasites Affect Food Web Structure Primarily through Increased Diversity and Complexity
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Parasites Affect Food Web Structure Primarily through Increased Diversity and Complexity
Comparative research on food web structure has revealed generalities in trophic organization, produced simple models, and allowed assessment of robustness to species loss. These studies have mostly focused on free-living species. Recent research has suggested that inclusion of parasites alters structure. We assess whether such changes in network structure result from unique roles and traits of ...
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عنوان ژورنال: PLoS Biology
سال: 2013
ISSN: 1545-7885
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.1001579