• DOI:10.1111/ele.12216
Corpus ID: 21774325

Limits on ecosystem trophic complexity: insights from ecological network analysis.

@article{Ulanowicz2014LimitsOE,
  title={Limits on ecosystem trophic complexity: insights from ecological network analysis.},
  author={R. Ulanowicz and R. Holt and M. Barfield},
  journal={Ecology letters},
  year={2014},
  volume={17 2},
  pages={
          127-36
        }
}

• R. Ulanowicz, R. Holt, M. Barfield
• Published 2014
• Biology, Medicine
• Ecology letters

Articulating what limits the length of trophic food chains has remained one of the most enduring challenges in ecology. Mere counts of ecosystem species and transfers have not much illumined the issue, in part because magnitudes of trophic transfers vary by orders of magnitude in power-law fashion. We address this issue by creating a suite of measures that extend the basic indexes usually obtained by counting taxa and transfers so as to apply to networks wherein magnitudes vary by orders of… Expand

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