Relating trophic resources to community structure: a predictive index of food availability
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Relating trophic resources to community structure: a predictive index of food availability
The abundance and the distribution of trophic resources available for consumers influence the productivity and the diversity of natural communities. Nevertheless, assessment of the actual abundance of food items available for individual trophic groups has been constrained by differences in methods and metrics used by various authors. Here we develop an index of food abundance, the framework of ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Royal Society Open Science
سال: 2017
ISSN: 2054-5703
DOI: 10.1098/rsos.160515