Trophic downgrading of planet earth

Science

Volumn 333, Issue 6040, 2011, Pages 301-306

  Estes, James A ^a   Terborgh, John ^b   Brashares, Justin S ^c   Power, Mary E ^d   Berger, Joel ^e,f   Bond, William J ^g   Carpenter, Stephen R ^h   Essington, Timothy E ⁱ   Holt, Robert D ^j   Jackson, Jeremy B C ^k   Marquis, Robert J ^l   Oksanen, Lauri ^m,n   Oksanen, Tarja ^m,o   Paine, Robert T ⁱ   Pikitch, Ellen K ^p   Ripple, William J ^q   Sandin, Stuart A ^k   Scheffer, Marten ^r   Schoener, Thomas W ^s   Shurin, Jonathan B ^t   Sinclair, Anthony R E ^t   Soulé, Michael E ^u   Virtanen, Risto ^v   Wardle, David A ^w   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

^f WILDLIFE CONSERVATION SOCIETY   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^h UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^j UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^k CENTER FOR MARINE BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION   (United States)

^l UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI ST LOUIS   (United States)

^m UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

ⁿ UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

^o UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^p STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^q OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^r WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^s UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^t UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^u NONE   (United States)

^v UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

^w SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

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Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLE; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; DISEASE INCIDENCE; EARTH; ECOSYSTEM RESILIENCE; ESTHETICS; ETHICS; FRESHWATER ECOSYSTEM; INTERDISCIPLINARY APPROACH; INVASIVE SPECIES; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEM; TOP-DOWN CONTROL; TROPHIC CASCADE; WILDFIRE;

APEX CONSUMER; BIODIVERSITY; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM RESILIENCE; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; FIRE; FOOD WEB; HERBIVORY; HUMAN; HYSTERESIS; INFECTION; INVASIVE SPECIES; NONHUMAN; ORGANISMAL INTERACTION; ORGANISMS BY FEEDING RELATIONSHIP; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; PREDATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SPECIES EXTINCTION; TROPHIC CASCADE; TROPHIC DOWNGRADING;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 79960548631     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1205106     Document Type: Review

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