Stable Isotope Analysis Challenges Wasp-Waist Food Web Assumptions in an Upwelling Pelagic Ecosystem

Eastern boundary currents are often described as ‘wasp-waist’ ecosystems in which one or few mid-level forage species support a high diversity of larger predators that are highly susceptible to fluctuations in prey biomass. The assumption of wasp-waist control has not been empirically tested in all...

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Autores principales: Madigan, Daniel J., Carlisle, Aaron B., Dewar, Heidi, Snodgrass, Owyn E., Litvin, Steven Y., Micheli, Fiorenza, Block, Barbara A.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3440624/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22977729
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep00654

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3440624/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22977729
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep00654

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