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A food web is a real or a model of a set of feeding relations among species or functional groups. This chapter has two foci, (i) a very brief introduction to multi-species webs as networks, and (ii) a re-examination of old lessons regarding the effect of food chain length on a web's dynamical properties.
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Stevens, M.H.H. (2009). An Introduction to Food Webs, and Lessons from Lotka–Volterra Models. In: Stevens, M.H.H. (eds) A Primer of Ecology with R. Use R!. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-89882-7_7
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