Light, nutrients, and food-chain length constrain planktonic energy transfer efficiency across multiple trophic levels

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• Publication year

  2008

• Venue

  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

• Publication date

  2008-11-25

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1073/pnas.0805566105PMID 19011082PMCID PMC2587603
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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