Community ecology: how green is the arctic tundra?

The exploitation ecosystems hypothesis suggests that food chain length increases along gradients of increasing primary productivity. Recent results provide compelling new evidence for this from an arctic-alpine ecosystem.

Bibliographic Details
Published in:Current Biology
Main Author: Morris, R
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: 2016
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2008.01.030
https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:6471dd82-6545-49a9-b374-a3bfe846a796
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Summary:The exploitation ecosystems hypothesis suggests that food chain length increases along gradients of increasing primary productivity. Recent results provide compelling new evidence for this from an arctic-alpine ecosystem.