Authors
Stuart L Pimm, John H Lawton, Joel E Cohen
Publication date
1991/4/25
Source
Nature
Volume
350
Issue
6320
Pages
669-674
Publisher
Nature Publishing Group UK
Description
A food web is a map that describes which kinds of organisms in a community eat which other kinds. A web helps picture how a community is put together and how it works. Although webs were often initially reported in despair at ever understanding ecological complexity, recently discovered widespread patterns in the shapes of webs, and theoretical explanations for these patterns, indicate that webs are orderly and intelligible, and have some foreseeable consequences for the dynamics of communities.
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SL Pimm, JH Lawton, JE Cohen - Nature, 1991