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food chain length: a standalone construct

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Ecology

the number of feeding links between the base of a food web and its top predator, shaped by energy supply, ecosystem size and disturbance.

In ecology, food chain length refers to the number of feeding links between the base of a food web and its top predator, shaped by energy supply, ecosystem size and disturbance. This meaning comes from Post (2002) in Trends in Ecology & Evolution.[1]

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base3 fields · 4 citationsjingle · one word, three constructs chain3 fields · 3 citationsjingle · one word, three constructs disturbance3 fields · 3 citationsjingle · one word, three constructs

References

Post, D. M. (2002). The long and short of food-chain length. Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 17(6), 269-277. https://doi.org/10.1016/s0169-5347(02)02455-2

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