Producer nutritional quality controls ecosystem trophic structure.

Trophic structure, or the distribution of biomass among producers and consumers, determines key ecosystem values, such as the abundance of infectious, harvestable or conservation target species, and the storage and cycling of carbon and nutrients. There has been much debate on what controls ecosyste...

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Main Authors: Just Cebrian, Jonathan B Shurin, Elizabeth T Borer, Bradley J Cardinale, Jacqueline T Ngai, Melinda D Smith, William F Fagan
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2009-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC2654170?pdf=render