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SUBMITTER: Perkins DM
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6335468 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Perkins Daniel M DM Perna Andrea A Adrian Rita R Cermeño Pedro P Gaedke Ursula U Huete-Ortega Maria M White Ethan P EP Yvon-Durocher Gabriel G
Nature communications 20190116 1
The size structure of autotroph communities - the relative abundance of small vs. large individuals - shapes the functioning of ecosystems. Whether common mechanisms underpin the size structure of unicellular and multicellular autotrophs is, however, unknown. Using a global data compilation, we show that individual body masses in tree and phytoplankton communities follow power-law distributions and that the average exponents of these individual size distributions (ISD) differ. Phytoplankton comm ...[more]