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Same math describes relationship between diverse predators and prey

Power law for animal abundances oddly matches '¾ rule' in physiology

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BITE CLUB  Regardless of where an ecosystem is, the predators and prey appear to follow roughly the same rule in their relative rates of increase, a new study says.

Amaury Laporte

By Susan Milius

- More than 2 years ago

On land or sea, when the zebras, gazelles or even plankton fruitfully multiply, their predators’ abundance doesn’t increase quite as much, a new analysis proposes.