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A global class reunion with multiple groups feasting on the declining insect smorgasbord
We report a detection of a surprising similarity in the diet of predators across distant phyla. Though just a first glimpse into the subject, our discovery contradicts traditional aspects of biology, as the earliest notions in ecology have linked the most severe competition of resources with evoluti...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7539006/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33024156 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-73609-9 |
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author | Vesterinen, Eero J. Kaunisto, Kari M. Lilley, Thomas M. |
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description | We report a detection of a surprising similarity in the diet of predators across distant phyla. Though just a first glimpse into the subject, our discovery contradicts traditional aspects of biology, as the earliest notions in ecology have linked the most severe competition of resources with evolutionary relatedness. We argue that our finding deserves more research, and propose a plan to reveal more information on the current biodiversity loss around the world. While doing so, we expand the recently proposed conservation roadmaps into a parallel study of global interaction networks. |
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spelling | pubmed-75390062020-10-08 A global class reunion with multiple groups feasting on the declining insect smorgasbord Vesterinen, Eero J. Kaunisto, Kari M. Lilley, Thomas M. Sci Rep Article We report a detection of a surprising similarity in the diet of predators across distant phyla. Though just a first glimpse into the subject, our discovery contradicts traditional aspects of biology, as the earliest notions in ecology have linked the most severe competition of resources with evolutionary relatedness. We argue that our finding deserves more research, and propose a plan to reveal more information on the current biodiversity loss around the world. While doing so, we expand the recently proposed conservation roadmaps into a parallel study of global interaction networks. Nature Publishing Group UK 2020-10-06 /pmc/articles/PMC7539006/ /pubmed/33024156 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-73609-9 Text en © The Author(s) 2020 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . |
spellingShingle | Article Vesterinen, Eero J. Kaunisto, Kari M. Lilley, Thomas M. A global class reunion with multiple groups feasting on the declining insect smorgasbord |
title | A global class reunion with multiple groups feasting on the declining insect smorgasbord |
title_full | A global class reunion with multiple groups feasting on the declining insect smorgasbord |
title_fullStr | A global class reunion with multiple groups feasting on the declining insect smorgasbord |
title_full_unstemmed | A global class reunion with multiple groups feasting on the declining insect smorgasbord |
title_short | A global class reunion with multiple groups feasting on the declining insect smorgasbord |
title_sort | global class reunion with multiple groups feasting on the declining insect smorgasbord |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7539006/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33024156 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-73609-9 |
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