Chapter Three: Detrital Dynamics and Cascading Effects on Supporting Ecosystem Services

Top-down trophic cascades are well known in many autotrophic systems, yet their role in heterotrophic food webs is less clear. We collated data from 78 investigations and applied meta-analysis to evaluate the strength of detrital trophic cascades in freshwater and terrestrial food webs. Predators ex...

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Published inAdvances in ecological research Vol. 53; p. 97
Main Authors Mancinelli, Giorgio, Mulder, Christian
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published London Elsevier BV 01.07.2015
Subjects
Ecosystem services
Ecosystem studies
Food chains
Food webs
Omnivores
Predators
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ISSN0065-2504
2163-582X
DOI10.1016/bs.aecr.2015.10.001

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