Limits to Trophic Levels and Omnivory in Complex Food Webs: Theory and Data

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• Publication year

  2004

• Venue

  American Naturalist

• Publication date

  2004-03-01

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1086/381964PMID 15026980
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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