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New insights into the role of nutrient cycling in food web dynamics
Samraat Pawar
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Samraat Pawar. New insights into the role of nutrient cycling in food web dynamics. Peer Community in Ecology, Peer Community In, 2020, pp.100046. �10.24072/pci.ecology.100046�. �hal-02611939�
New insights into the role of nutrient cycling in food web dynamics
Samraat Pawar based on reviews by Jean-François Arnoldi, Wojciech Uszko and 1 anonymous reviewer A recommendation of:
Pierre Quévreux, Sébastien Barot and Élisa Thébault. Interplay between the paradox of enrichment and nutrient cycling in food webs (2020), bioRxiv, 276592, ver. 7 peer-reviewed and
recommended by Peer Community in Ecology. 10.1101/276592
Submitted: 03 November 2018, Recommended: 01 March 2020
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Samraat Pawar (2020) New insights into the role of nutrient cycling in food web dynamics.
Peer Community in Ecology, 100046. 10.24072/pci.ecology.100046
Understanding the factors that govern the relationship between structure, stability and functioning of food webs has been a central problem in ecology for many decades. Historically, apart from microbial and soil food webs, the role of nutrient cycling has largely been ignored in theoretical and empirical food web studies.
A prime example of this is the widespread use of Lotka-Volterra type models in theoretical studies; these models per se are not designed to capture the effect of nutrients being released back into the system by interacting populations. Thus overall, we still lack a general understanding of how nutrient cycling affects food web dynamics. A new study by Quévreux, Barot and Thébault [1]
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Published: 1 March 2020
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