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标题：Toward understanding the effect of top predators on ecosystems
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作者：Nicolas Lecomte ; Dorothée Ehrich ; Rolf A Ims 等
期刊名称：F1000 Biology Reports
电子版ISSN：2051-7599
出版年度：2009
卷号：1
DOI：10.3410/B1-26
语种：English
出版社：Faculty of 1000 Ltd
摘要：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.