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Beyond body mass: how prey traits improve predictions of functional response parameters.
Oecologia - 1 Feb 2016
Kalinoski Ryan M, DeLong John P
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Understanding the factors that determine the strength of predator-prey interactions is essential to understanding community structure and stability. Variation in the strength of predator-prey interactions often can be attributed to predator mass and prey mass, or abiotic factors like temperature. However, even when accounting for these factors, there remains a considerable amount of unexplained variation that may...
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