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Published online 6 August 2008 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news.2008.1010
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Google tool identifies linchpin species
Search system predicts what prey are needed to keep an ecosystem working.
Google’s search algorithm can be used to determine which prey are most important for an ecosystem to thrive.
That’s the claim of a researcher who studies food webs, the complex networks that describe who eats whom in an ecosystem.
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