Productivity, disturbance and ecosystem size have no influence on food chain length in seasonally connected rivers.

Productivity, disturbance and ecosystem size have no influence on food chain length in seasonally connected rivers.

The food web is one of the oldest and most central organising concepts in ecology and for decades, food chain length has been hypothesised to be controlled by productivity, disturbance, and/or ecosystem size; each of which may be mediated by the functional trophic role of the top predator. We charac...

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Main Authors: Danielle M Warfe, Timothy D Jardine, Neil E Pettit, Stephen K Hamilton, Bradley J Pusey, Stuart E Bunn, Peter M Davies, Michael M Douglas
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3680379?pdf=render

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