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connectance: a standalone construct

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Ecology

the fraction of all possible feeding links in a food web that are realized, proposed to stay roughly constant across webs.

In ecology, connectance refers to the fraction of all possible feeding links in a food web that are realized, proposed to stay roughly constant across webs. This meaning comes from Martinez (1992) in The American Naturalist.[1]

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References

Martinez, N. D. (1992). Constant Connectance in Community Food Webs. The American Naturalist, 139(6), 1208-1218. https://doi.org/10.1086/285382

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