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Consumer power as the major evolutionary force

โœ Scribed by Koichiro Matsuno


Book ID
102612866
Publisher
Elsevier Science
Year
1995
Tongue
English
Weight
421 KB
Volume
173
Category
Article
ISSN
0022-5193

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โœฆ Synopsis


Each trophic level in evolving ecosystems can behave as either a supplier toward the downstream of trophic energy flow or a consumer toward the upstream, or an arbitrary mixture of the two. We show that each trophic level behaves almost completely as a consumer in evolutionarily sustainable ecosystems. The present prevalence of consumers in evolving ecosystems derives from a model trophic dynamics minimizing the artificial constraints to be applied arbitrarily.


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