ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2021
Behavioral responses across a mosaic of ecosystem states restructure a sea otter-urchin trophic cascade.
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Abstract
Consumer and predator foraging behavior can impart profound trait-mediated constraints on community regulation that scale up to influence the structure and stability of ecosystems. Here, we demonstrate how the behavioral response of an apex predator to changes in prey behavior and condition can dramatically alter the role and relative contribution of top-down forcing, depending on the spatial organization of ecosystem states. In 2014, a rapid and dramatic decline in the abundance of a mesopredator (
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