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SUBMITTER: Grubbs RD
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4753470 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Grubbs R Dean RD Carlson John K JK Romine Jason G JG Curtis Tobey H TH McElroy W David WD McCandless Camilla T CT Cotton Charles F CF Musick John A JA
Scientific reports 20160215
When identifying potential trophic cascades, it is important to clearly establish the trophic linkages between predators and prey with respect to temporal abundance, demographics, distribution, and diet. In the northwest Atlantic Ocean, the depletion of large coastal sharks was thought to trigger a trophic cascade whereby predation release resulted in increased cownose ray abundance, which then caused increased predation on and subsequent collapse of commercial bivalve stocks. These claims were ...[more]