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SUBMITTER: Woodson CB
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7542787 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Woodson C B CB Schramski J R JR Joye S B SB
Proceedings. Biological sciences 20200909 1934
Marine ecosystems are generally expected to have bottom-heavy trophic structure (more plants than animals) due to size-based constraints arising from increased metabolic requirements and inefficient energy transfer. However, size-based (allometric) approaches are often limited to confined trophic-level windows where energy transfer is predicted by size alone and are constrained to a balance between bottom-up and top-down control at steady state. In real food webs, energy flow is more complex and ...[more]