PhysOrg Posted January 3, 2013 Share Posted January 3, 2013 This thick-billed murre is part of a Bering Sea study published in PLOS ONE looking at the importance of prey "patchiness." Credit: Photo courtesy Kelly Benoit-Bird, Oregon State University Marine resource managers often gauge the health of species based on overall biomass, but a new study of predator-prey relationships in the Bering Sea found that it isn't the total number of individuals that predators care about – it's how densely they are aggregated.Read the full article on PhysOrg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ScienceDaily Posted January 4, 2013 Share Posted January 4, 2013 Marine resource managers often gauge the health of species based on overall biomass, but a new study of predator-prey relationships in the Bering Sea found that it isn't the total number of individuals that predators care about -- it's how densely they are aggregated. Read the full article on ScienceDaily Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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