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The global ocean size-spectrum from bacteria to whales

2021-04-04

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It has long been hypothesized that aquatic biomass is evenly distributed among logarithmic body mass size-classes. Although this community structure has been observed locally among plankton groups, its generality has never been formally tested across all marine life, nor have its impacts by humans been broadly assessed. Here, we bring together data at the global scale to test the hypothesis from bacteria to whales...

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Literature Corpus work: 6062d548-c552-5377-9b0c-c83f32eb1ab6
DOI: 10.1101/2021.04.03.438320

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