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Benjamin S Halpern1, Karl Cottenie, Bernardo R Broitman

  • 1National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, 735 State Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101, USA. halpern@nceas.ucsb.edu

Science (New York, N.Y.)
|May 27, 2006
PubMed
まとめ

捕食者による上から下へのコントロールは,下から上への栄養コントロールよりも,海洋の食物網に大きな影響を与えます. 捕食者の豊富さを理解することは,海藻の森のような沿岸の生態系を管理するための鍵です.

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