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June 17, 2013

Do parasites upset food web theory?
Santa Fe NM (SPX) Jun 18, 2013
Parasites comprise a large proportion of the diversity of species in every ecosystem. Despite this, they are rarely included in analyses or models of food webs. If parasites play different roles from other predators and prey, however, their inclusion could fundamentally alter our understanding of how food webs are organized. In the open access journal PLOS Biology, SFI Professor Jennifer Dunne and collaborators test this assertion and show that including parasites in ecological datasets does alter ... read more

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