trophic cascade
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№ 251EcologyKeystone Species: When Removing One Thing Collapses the Rest
Disproportionate influence relative to abundance — what the concept actually means, where it holds up, and where it gets overstated.
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№ 499EcologyTrophic Cascades: When the Top Predator Shapes the River
How removing — or restoring — a top predator can ripple all the way down a food web to change the plants, the soil, and even the shape of a river, as the wolves of Yellowstone and the sea otters of the kelp forest famously showed.
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