Optimal defense strategies in an idealized microbial food web under trade-off between competition and defense.

Trophic mechanisms that can generate biodiversity in food webs include bottom-up (growth rate regulating) and top-down (biomass regulating) factors. The top-down control has traditionally been analyzed using the concepts of "Keystone Predation" (KP) and "Killing-the-Winner" (KtW)...

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Principais autores: Selina Våge, Julia E Storesund, Jarl Giske, T Frede Thingstad
Formato: Artigo
Idioma:English
Publicado em: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
coleção:PLoS ONE
Acesso em linha:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4084851?pdf=render