捕食者-獲物の力法則:陸上と水中のバイオームにわたるバイオマスのスケール

Ian A Hatton1, Kevin S McCann2, John M Fryxell2

  • 1Department of Biology, McGill University, Montréal, Québec H3A 1B1, Canada. i.a.hatton@gmail.com.

Science (New York, N.Y.)
|September 5, 2015
PubMed
まとめ

地球規模の生態系は一貫した生物量スケーリング法則を示し,捕食者と獲物の生物量は一般的な規則に従っている. これは世界中の生態系における より組織的で予測可能な構造を示唆しています

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