Stepping in Elton's footprints: a general scaling model for body masses and trophic levels across ecosystems.

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• Publication year

  2011

• Venue

  Ecology Letters

• Publication date

  2011-02-01

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2010.01568.xPMID 21199248
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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