Toward understanding the effect of top predators on ecosystems.
To what extent top predators - carnivores at the top of food chains - drive or just respond to ecosystem dynamics is a central, but partially unresolved, question in ecology. In this report, we highlight how different research approaches employed in aquatic and terrestrial ecology may have a bearing on how the role of top predators in ecosystems is perceived.
Lecomte
Nicolas
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Department of Biology, University of Tromsø Drammensv 201, N-9037 Tromsø Norway.
Ehrich
Dorothée
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Ims
Rolf A
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Yoccoz
Nigel G
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