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SUBMITTER: Kazama T
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7794211 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Kazama Takehiro T Urabe Jotaro J Yamamichi Masato M Tokita Kotaro K Yin Xuwang X Katano Izumi I Doi Hideyuki H Yoshida Takehito T Hairston Nelson G NG
Communications biology 20210108 1
The biomass ratio of herbivores to primary producers reflects the structure of a community. Four primary factors have been proposed to affect this ratio, including production rate, defense traits and nutrient contents of producers, and predation by carnivores. However, identifying the joint effects of these factors across natural communities has been elusive, in part because of the lack of a framework for examining their effects simultaneously. Here, we develop a framework based on Lotka-Volterr ...[more]