Comparability: the Key to the Applicability of Food Web Research
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چکیده
However food webs have always been considered as a central issue of ecology, their value and usefulness are frequently questioned. In this paper, I overview some causes of this skepticism and discuss in which cases two or more food webs can be compared. I suggest that the comparability of different food webs is a key to possible applications. I show how are two important topics of recent community ecology (keystone species and food web aggregation) related to the comparability problem. Finally, I overview some recent applications of food web research, where comparability can help understanding.
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