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New paper: Food web indicators for conservation succes

Our new paper is online available from today in Biological Conservation: a pdf here!

The highlights of this paper:

Food webs of (A) intertidal mussel beds and (B) intertidal mudflats without mussel beds (“control”). The food web of a mudflat without mussel bed is typically simpler. Nodes represent species and lines links between species if a species is included in the diet of the species higher up in the food web. Node colors changes from red (basal species) to yellow with increasing trophic level. Note that the food web on mussel beds has a higher species richness (# nodes), link density (lines per node; L/S), but not a higher trophic level of top predators (node color).
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