Predator-Prey Pattern Consistent Across Diverse Ecosystems (5 of 6) (IMAGE)

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Predator-Prey Pattern Consistent Across Diverse Ecosystems (5 of 6)

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Predator and prey communities exhibit a common but unexpected organizational structure. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the Sept. 4, 2015 issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by I.A. Hatton at McGill University in Montréal, QC, Canada, and colleagues was titled, "The predator-prey power law: Biomass scaling across terrestrial and aquatic biomes."

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[Credit: Amaury Laporte]

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