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Can crabs kill like a keystone predator? A field-test of the effects of crab predation on mussel mortality on a northeast Pacific rocky shore
Predation can strongly influence community structure and ecosystem function, so the loss of key predators can have dramatic ecological consequences, unless other predatory species in the system are capable of playing similar ecological roles. In light of the recent outbreak of sea star wasting disea...
Autores principales: | Hull, Wesley W., Bourdeau, Paul E. |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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Public Library of Science
2017
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5570281/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28837597 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0183064 |
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