Variation in Niche Breadth with Trophic Position: On the Disparity between Expected and Observed Species Packing

Volume: 122, Issue: 4, Pages: 542 - 548
Published: Oct 1, 1983
Abstract
The observation that more kinds of predators than prey comprise natural communities is more likely an artifact of systematic variation in the kinds of organisms that biologists distinguish at different trophic levels than a fact of nature. The opposite expectation is derived from a dynamic theory of community development. We should gather observations from which we can determine the numbers of trophic resources at different levels in natural...
Paper Details
Title
Variation in Niche Breadth with Trophic Position: On the Disparity between Expected and Observed Species Packing
Published Date
Oct 1, 1983
Volume
122
Issue
4
Pages
542 - 548
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