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Apex Predators Decouple Population Dynamics Between Mesopredators and Their Prey

2019-11-01

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The mesopredator release hypothesis (MRH) predicts that the removal of apex predators should lead to increased abundance of smaller predators through relaxation of suppressive, top-down effects. However, apex predators’ effects on mesopredators are also likely to be modulated by interactions with human activities and ecosystem productivity. The exploitation ecosystems hypothesis (EEH) predicts that biomass of apex...

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Literature Corpus work: 791aad84-59c6-5f92-b973-a18ba7078659
DOI: 10.1007/s10021-019-00360-2

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