Ancient Ecosystems Organized Much Like Our Own

Courtesy ScienceDaily  Wed, 04/30/2008 - 17:30

Similarities between half-billion-year-old and recent food webs point to deep principles underpinning the structure of ecological relationships, as shown by researchers from the Santa Fe Institute, Microsoft Research Cambridge and elsewhere.

Analyses of food-web data suggest that most, but not all, aspects of the trophic structure of modern ecosystems were in place over a half-billion years ago.

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