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Conservation biology

the cascading ecosystem change that follows the removal of large apex consumers from food webs.

In conservation biology, trophic downgrading refers to the cascading ecosystem change that follows the removal of large apex consumers from food webs. This meaning comes from Estes (2011) in Science.[1]

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References

Estes, J. A., Terborgh, J., Brashares, J. S., Power, M. E., Berger, J., Bond, W. J., Carpenter, S. R., Essington, T. E., Holt, R. D., Jackson, J. B. C., Marquis, R. J., Oksanen, L., Oksanen, T., Paine, R. T., Pikitch, E. K., Ripple, W. J., Sandin, S. A., Scheffer, M., Schoener, T. W., Shurin, J. B., Sinclair, A. R. E., Soulé, M. E., Virtanen, R., & Wardle, D. A. (2011). Trophic Downgrading of Planet Earth. Science, 333(6040), 301-306. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1205106

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