A meta-analysis shows that seaweeds surpass plants, setting life-on-Earth ’s limit for biomass packing

As plants, algae and some sessile invertebrates may grow in nearly monospecific assemblies, their collective biomass increases and if they compete hard enough some die, freeing up space. The concurrent increas...

Source: BMC Ecology - January 31, 2019 Category: Biology Authors: Joel C. Creed, Vasco M. N. C. S. Vieira, Trevor A. Norton and Debora Caetano Tags: Research article Source Type: research