Figure 1 shows a simplified food web in a desert ecosystem. In this food web ... is 10 to 1000 times faster than that of grasslands and forests, thus, less carbon is stored in the living autotroph ...

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More recently, scientists have examined the importance of plant diversity for ecosystem stability in terrestrial ecosystems, especially grasslands where the dominant vegetation lies low to the ...