4.5 COMPARTMENTALIZATION‘LIFE HISTORY OMNIVORY’, IN WHICH DIFFERENT...

20.4.5 Compartmentalization

‘life history omnivory’, in which different life history stages of

a species feed on different trophic levels, as when tadpoles are

herbivores and adult frogs and toads are carnivores (Pimm & Rice,

A food web is compartmentalized if it is organized into sub-

units within which interactions are strong, but between which