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Size-based Community Structure

Size-Based Community Structure is a conceptual framework in plankton ecology that organizes biological communities according to the body size of constituent organisms, thereby revealing patterns in species abundance, trophic interactions, and energy flow across size classes rather than taxonomic groups.

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Increasing importance of small phytoplankton in a warmer ocean

Xosé Anxelu G. Morán, Ángel López‐Urrutia, Alejandra Calvo‐Díaz et al. · Global Change Biology · 2009 · 604 citations · Full text

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Weak cross‐species relationships between body size and trophic level belie powerful size‐based trophic structuring in fish communities

Simon Jennings, John K. Pinnegar, Nicholas Polunin et al. · Journal of Animal Ecology · 2001 · 426 citations

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Ecosystem ecology: size-based constraints on the pyramids of life

Rowan Trebilco, Julia K. Baum, Anne K. Salomon et al. · Trends in Ecology & Evolution · 2013 · 368 citations · Full text

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Larger Islands House More Bacterial Taxa

Thomas Bell, Duane Ager, Ji‐Inn Song et al. · Science · 2005 · 261 citations

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Ecological determinism increases with organism size

Vinicius F. Farjalla, Diane S. Srivastava, Nicholas A. C. Marino et al. · Ecology · 2012 · 257 citations

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Authors

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  1. JL
    Julia L. Blanchard

    University of Tasmania, Australia

    5 publications · 365 citations

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    John K. Pinnegar

    Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science, United Kingdom

    4 publications · 703 citations

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  3. SJ
    Simon Jennings

    Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science, United Kingdom

    4 publications · 869 citations

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  4. KH
    Ken H. Andersen

    Technical University of Denmark, Denmark

    3 publications · 136 citations

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  5. GY
    Gabriel Yvon‐Durocher

    University of Exeter, United Kingdom

    3 publications · 225 citations

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208

  1. Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science

    Lowestoft, United Kingdom

    6 h-index

    21 publications

    3.4K citations

  2. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

    Paris, France

    5 h-index

    10 publications

    341 citations

  3. Queen Mary University of London

    London, United Kingdom

    4 h-index

    16 publications

    1.2K citations

  4. Technical University of Denmark

    Kongens Lyngby, Denmark

    4 h-index

    11 publications

    469 citations

  5. University of Tasmania

    Hobart, Australia

    4 h-index

    9 publications

    207 citations

  6. McGill University

    Montreal, Canada

    3 h-index

    4 publications

    156 citations

  7. University of Victoria

    Victoria, Canada

    3 h-index

    4 publications

    443 citations

  8. Centre for Marine Socioecology

    Hobart, Australia

    3 h-index

    4 publications

    108 citations

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  3. Ecology

    5 publications · 468 citations

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  4. Journal of Plankton Research

    4 publications · 68 citations

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  5. Journal of Animal Ecology

    4 publications · 515 citations

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