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Comment
. 2008 Mar 18;105(11):4079-80.
doi: 10.1073/pnas.0800967105. Epub 2008 Mar 11.

The "Goldilocks factor" in food webs

Eric L Berlow  1 , Ulrich Brose, Neo D Martinez
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The "Goldilocks factor" in food webs

Eric L Berlow et al. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. .
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Fig. 1.
Cross-scale integration from individuals to ecosystems. Petchey et al. (1) model organisms' size-based foraging and integrate it with the network structure of food webs (red arrow). This work contributes to a broad research program that uses body size to integrate different levels of trophic organization and interactions (blue arrows).
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  • Size, foraging, and food web structure.
    Petchey OL, Beckerman AP, Riede JO, Warren PH. Petchey OL, et al. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 Mar 18;105(11):4191-6. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0710672105. Epub 2008 Mar 12. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008. PMID: 18337512 Free PMC article.

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