The diets of half-a-billion-year-old species
Simplifying Complexity
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Ancient Food Webs: Patterns and Predictions
This chapter explores ancient food webs from the Burgess Shale and Changsheng shale, drawing comparisons to modern ecosystems. It highlights the significance of trophic structures and degree distributions in understanding ecological networks over geological timescales. The discussion also addresses the challenges of data analysis in predicting species existence and emphasizes the relevance of trait-based ecology in studying fossil records.
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