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Empirical Correspondence Between Trophic Transfer Efficiency in Freshwater Food Webs and the Slope of Their Size Spectra
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| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Title | Empirical Correspondence Between Trophic Transfer Efficiency in Freshwater Food Webs and the Slope of Their Size Spectra |
| Creator | Mehner, Thomas Lischke, Betty Scharnweber, Kristin Attermeyer, Katrin Brothers, Soren Gaedke, Ursula Hilt, Sabine Brucet, Sandra |
| Description | The density of organisms declines with size, because larger organisms need more energy than smaller ones and energetic losses occur when larger organisms feed on smaller ones. A potential expression of density-size distributions are Normalized Biomass Size Spectra (NBSS), which plot the logarithm of biomass independent of taxonomy within bins of logarithmic organismal size, divided by the bin width. Theoretically, the NBSS slope of multi-trophic communities is exactly 1.0 if the trophic... |
| Date | 2018-06-01T07:00:00Z |
| Type | text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Identifier | https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/wats_facpub/1009 info:doi/10.1002/ecy.2347 https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/context/wats_facpub/article/2022/viewcontent/Mehner_et_al_2018_Ecology.pdf |
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| Source | Watershed Sciences Faculty Publications |
| Publisher | Hosted by Utah State University Libraries |
| Contributor | Ecological Society of America |
| Subject | energetic equivalence rule metabolic theory of ecology multi-trophic communities normalized biomass size spectra pelagic and benthic lake habitats size of organisms Ecology and Evolutionary Biology |
