Does Food Web Complexity Eliminate Trophic‐Level Dynamics?
- 1 May 1997
- journal article
- research article
- Published by University of Chicago Press in The American Naturalist
- Vol. 149 (5) , 1001-1007
- https://doi.org/10.1086/286035
Abstract
Investigators are always divided into those who are looking for rules and those who are looking for exceptions. (Hackett 1937, p. 106)Keywords
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