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The trophic-dynamic aspect of ecology

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Recent progress in the study of aquatic food-cycle relationships invites a reappraisal of certain ecological tenets. Quantitative productivity data provide a basis for enunciating certain trophic principles, which, when applied to a series of successional stages, shed new light on the dynamics of ecological succession.

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From “The trophic-dynamic aspect of ecology” by R. L. Lindeman.Ecology, Vol. 23, pp. 399–418 (1942).

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Lindeman, R.L. The trophic-dynamic aspect of ecology. Bltn Mathcal Biology 53, 167–191 (1991). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02464428

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