Zooplankton Are Not Fish: Improving Zooplankton Realism in Size-Spectrum Models Mediates Energy Transfer in Food Webs
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Centre for Applications in Natural Resource Mathematics, School of Mathematics and Physics, University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia, 2 School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia, 3 Sydney Institute of Marine Science, Sydney, NSW, Australia, 4 Institute of Marine and Antarctic Studies, University of Tasmania, Hobart, TAS, Australia, 5 Ecosciences Precinct, CSIRO Ocean and Atmosphere, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
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تاریخ انتشار 2016