Trophic cascade
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trophic-cascade-161-16091909
title:
Trophic cascade
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Trophic cascades are powerful indirect interactions that can control entire ecosystems, occurring when a trophic level in a food web is suppressed. For example, a top-down cascade will occur if predators are effective enough in predation to reduce the abundance, or alter the behavior of their prey, thereby releasing the next lower trophic level from predation. The trophic cascade is an ecological concept which has stimulated new research in many areas of ecology. For example, it can be important
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wiki
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encyclopedia
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Ecosystem event
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trophic_cascade
date created:
2006-11-15T23:43:17Z
date modified:
2024-08-27T16:51:29Z
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