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This paper is an expository and nontechnical review of some recent discoveries about food webs. The discoveries are those I have been privileged to make jointly with two splendid collaborators: Frédéric Briand, formerly at the University of Ottawa and now at the International Union for the Conservation of Nature, Gland, Switzerland; and Charles M. Newman, at the University of Arizona, Tucson. These discoveries depend on data collected by scores of field ecologists, so the circle of contributors is much wider.
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Cohen, J.E. (1988). Untangling ‘An Entangled Bank’: Recent Facts and Theories About Community Food Webs. In: Hastings, A. (eds) Community Ecology. Lecture Notes in Biomathematics, vol 77. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-85936-6_6
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