Florida Bay Synthesis Higher Trophic Level Species 4 / 9 / 2003 8 - 1 Higher Trophic Level Species
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Defining and measuring trophic role similarity in food webs using regular equivalence.
We present a graph theoretic model of analysing food web structure called regular equivalence. Regular equivalence is a method for partitioning the species in a food web into "isotrophic classes" that play the same structural roles, even if they are not directly consuming the same prey or if they do not share the same predators. We contrast regular equivalence models, in which two species are m...
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