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Attention Score in Context
| Title |
The Role of Discharge Variation in Scaling of Drainage Area and Food Chain Length in Rivers
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|---|---|
| Published in |
Science, October 2010
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| DOI | 10.1126/science.1196005 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
John L. Sabo, Jacques C. Finlay, Theodore Kennedy, David M. Post |
| Abstract |
Food chain length (FCL) is a fundamental component of food web structure. Studies in a variety of ecosystems suggest that FCL is determined by energy supply, environmental stability, and/or ecosystem size, but the nature of the relationship between environmental stability and FCL, and the mechanism linking ecosystem size to FCL, remain unclear. Here we show that FCL increases with drainage area and decreases with hydrologic variability and intermittency across 36 North American rivers. Our analysis further suggests that hydrologic variability is the mechanism underlying the correlation between ecosystem size and FCL in rivers. Ecosystem size lengthens river food chains by integrating and attenuating discharge variation through stream networks, thereby enhancing environmental stability in larger river systems. |
Mendeley readers
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 7 | 2% |
| Germany | 2 | <1% |
| Netherlands | 1 | <1% |
| Chile | 1 | <1% |
| France | 1 | <1% |
| Colombia | 1 | <1% |
| Austria | 1 | <1% |
| India | 1 | <1% |
| Czechia | 1 | <1% |
| Other | 5 | 2% |
| Unknown | 303 | 94% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Researcher | 89 | 27% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 74 | 23% |
| Student > Master | 31 | 10% |
| Professor | 25 | 8% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 21 | 6% |
| Other | 50 | 15% |
| Unknown | 34 | 10% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 126 | 39% |
| Environmental Science | 112 | 35% |
| Earth and Planetary Sciences | 17 | 5% |
| Engineering | 10 | 3% |
| Social Sciences | 3 | <1% |
| Other | 10 | 3% |
| Unknown | 46 | 14% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 12. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 10 July 2023.
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#3,114,207
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#34,643
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#12,377
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Outputs of similar age from Science
#194
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