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An Emerging Infectious Disease Triggering Large-Scale Hyperpredation

Hyperpredation refers to an enhanced predation pressure on a secondary prey due to either an increase in the abundance of a predator population or a sudden drop in the abundance of the main prey. This scarcely documented mechanism has been previously studied in scenarios in which the introduction of...

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Autores principales: Moleón, Marcos, Almaraz, Pablo, Sánchez-Zapata, José A.
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2008
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2390756/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18523587
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0002307