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Disappearance of an ecosystem engineer, the white-lipped peccary (Tayassu pecari), leads to density compensation and ecological release

Given the rate of biodiversity loss, there is an urgent need to understand community-level responses to extirpation events, with two prevailing hypotheses. On one hand, the loss of an apex predator leads to an increase in primary prey species, triggering a trophic cascade of other changes within the...

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Autores principales: Whitworth, Andrew, Beirne, Christopher, Basto, Arianna, Flatt, Eleanor, Tobler, Mathias, Powell, George, Terborgh, John, Forsyth, Adrian
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9464176/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35963917
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00442-022-05233-5