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| Blanchard, Julia L.; Jennings, Simon; Law, Richard; Castle, Matthew D.; Mccloghrie, Paul; Rochet, Marie-joelle; Benoit, Eric. |
| Widely observed macro-ecological patterns in log abundance vs. log body mass of organisms can be explained by simple scaling theory based on food (energy) availability across a spectrum of body sizes. The theory predicts that when food availability falls with body size (as in most aquatic food webs where larger predators eat smaller prey), the scaling between log N vs. log m is steeper than when organisms of different sizes compete for a shared unstructured resource (e.g. autotrophs, herbivores and detritivores; hereafter dubbed 'detritivores'). In real communities, the mix of feeding characteristics gives rise to complex food webs. Such complexities make empirical tests of scaling predictions prone to error if: (i) the data are not disaggregated in... |
| Tipo: Text |
Palavras-chave: Size spectrum; North Sea; Macroecology; Ecosystem effects of fishing; Community ecology; Benthic pelagic coupling; Allometric scaling. |
| Ano: 2009 |
URL: http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/2009/publication-7318.pdf |
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