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A meta-analysis shows that seaweeds surpass plants, setting life-on-Earth’s limit for biomass packing

BACKGROUND: As plants, algae and some sessile invertebrates may grow in nearly monospecific assemblies, their collective biomass increases and if they compete hard enough some die, freeing up space. The concurrent increase in biomass and decrease in density is called self-thinning, and its trajector...

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Autores principales: Creed, Joel C., Vieira, Vasco M. N. C. S., Norton, Trevor A., Caetano, Debora
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6357480/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30704446
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12898-019-0218-z