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Simple rules yield complex food webs
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Metadata
- Authors
- Williams, R. J., & Martinez, N. D.
- Venue
- Nature
- Published
- 2000-03
- Volume
- 404
- Issue
- 6774
- Pages
- 180-183
- ISSN
- 0028-0836 (ISSN-L)
- 1476-4687
- OpenAlex
- W1975998971
- Cited by
- 1,487
- References
- 2
- FWCI
- 29.65
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Licence
- www.springer.com/tdm (tdm)
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