Emergent competition shapes top-down versus bottom-up control in multi-trophic ecosystems.

Ecosystems are commonly organized into trophic levels-organisms that occupy the same level in a food chain (e.g., plants, herbivores, carnivores). A fundamental question in theoretical ecology is how the interplay between trophic structure, diversity, and competition shapes the properties of ecosyst...

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Main Authors: Zhijie Feng, Robert Marsland, Jason W Rocks, Pankaj Mehta
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2024-02-01
Series:PLoS Computational Biology
Online Access:https://journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.pcbi.1011675&type=printable