Food Web Complexity and Species Diversity
- 1 January 1966
- journal article
- research article
- Published by University of Chicago Press in The American Naturalist
- Vol. 100 (910) , 65-75
- https://doi.org/10.1086/282400
Abstract
The hypothesis that predation contributes to local species diversity is examined by comparing food webs studied in the rocky intertidal of Washington, Baja California and Costa Rica. The hypothesis is supported by disproportionate increases in carnivorous species in diverse assembleges, and by decreases in diversity when the main predator is experimentally removed.This publication has 14 references indexed in Scilit:
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