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捕食者の多様性は,トロフィックカスケードを抑制する.

Deborah L Finke1, Robert F Denno

  • 1Department of Entomology, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742, USA. dfinke@umd.edu

Nature
|May 28, 2004
PubMed
まとめ

食物網における捕食者の多様性の増加は,トロフィックカスケードを弱め,自然敵が草食動物に与える影響を弱め,最終的には植物生産性に影響を及ぼします. これは,より高いトロフィックレベルの多様性が生態系の機能をどのように変化させるかを強調しています.

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