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Tag: Friedrich Keppeler

Is Bigger Better? Study Confirms Larger Fish Are Tops in Estuary Food Webs

In the ecological sciences it is generally accepted that, the bigger an organism, the higher its position or “trophic level” in the food web. There are, of course, obvious exceptions – wolves and lions are dwarfed by most of their four hoofed prey – but, more often than not, the maxim holds true. The bigger …