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Conditions for Eltonian Pyramids in Lotka-Volterra Food Chains

In ecological communities consumers (excluding parasites and parasitoids) are in general larger and less numerous than their resource. This results in a well-known observation known as ‘Eltonian pyramids’ or the ‘pyramid of numbers’, and metabolic arguments suggest that this pattern is independent o...

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Autor principal: Jonsson, Tomas
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group UK 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5589755/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28883486
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-11204-1