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Trophic Cascades

Trophic Cascades is a trophic interaction in which predators indirectly benefit primary producers by suppressing herbivore abundance or altering herbivore behavior, thereby creating a top-down regulatory effect across multiple trophic levels in an ecosystem.

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The Trophic‐Dynamic Aspect of Ecology

Raymond L. Lindeman · Ecology · 1942 · 3.3K citations

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Cascading Trophic Interactions and Lake Productivity

Stephen R. Carpenter, James F. Kitchell, James R. Hodgson · BioScience · 1985 · 2.6K citations · Full text

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Ecological Meltdown in Predator-Free Forest Fragments

John Terborgh, Lawrence Lopez, Percy Núñez et al. · Science · 2001 · 1.7K citations

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Trophic cascades revealed in diverse ecosystems

Michael L. Pace, Jonathan J. Cole, Jonathan J. Cole et al. · Trends in Ecology & Evolution · 1999 · 1.5K citations · Full text

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Emergent impacts of multiple predators on prey

Andrew Sih, Göran Englund, David E. Wooster · Trends in Ecology & Evolution · 1998 · 1.3K citations

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    William J. Ripple

    Oregon State University, United States

    20 publications · 3.6K citations

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    Oswald J. Schmitz

    Yale University, United States

    15 publications · 3.6K citations

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  3. RL
    Robert L. Beschta

    Oregon State University, United States

    12 publications · 2.7K citations

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    Lee A. Dyer

    University of Nevada, Reno, United States

    10 publications · 551 citations

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    Jonathan B. Shurin

    University of California San Diego, United States

    9 publications · 2.5K citations

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  1. University of California, Davis

    Davis, United States

    21 h-index

    42 publications

    5.1K citations

  2. University of California, Santa Cruz

    Santa Cruz, United States

    20 h-index

    45 publications

    7K citations

  3. Oregon State University

    Corvallis, United States

    19 h-index

    41 publications

    5.4K citations

  4. Yale University

    New Haven, United States

    16 h-index

    33 publications

    12.1K citations

  5. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

    Paris, France

    14 h-index

    60 publications

    4.2K citations

  6. University of British Columbia

    Vancouver, Canada

    13 h-index

    32 publications

    3.7K citations

  7. Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences

    Uppsala, Sweden

    11 h-index

    27 publications

    1.8K citations

  8. University of Washington

    Seattle, United States

    11 h-index

    19 publications

    1.7K citations

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  1. Ecology

    62 publications · 11.6K citations

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  2. Oecologia

    36 publications · 2.3K citations

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  3. Oikos

    38 publications · 3.2K citations

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  4. Ecology Letters

    19 publications · 5.4K citations

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  5. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    PNAS · 17 publications · 4.6K citations

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