Sentence examples similar to top down predator from inspiring English sources
"It's just this cascade effect if you remove a top-down predator, and you start to see the effects of it years later," she said.
The juxtaposition of an anthropogenic edge appears to have created a shift to a "top-down," predator-mediated dynamic for these lizards.
Like most ecological communities, aspen (Populus tremuloides) forests are influenced by a synergy of bottom-up (resources-driven) and top-down (predator-driven) processes.
Consumer control, and the subsequent byproducts of the presence of predators (collectively termed "top down effects"), has been posited to exert a regulating effect on ecosystem structure and function [12] [17].
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Scientists from Duke University and eight other institutions have attempted to shed light on this question of how an ecosystem is regulated, from the top down (by predators) or bottom up (by plants).
Such a response in prey could serve to magnify the top-down effects of predator removal on lower trophic levels.
Knowledge gaps include the interaction of top-down (e.g., predators) and bottom-up (e.g., drought, fire, hydrology, logging) effects, and how the ecological context of the interaction affects the outcome.
Others may be top-down limited by predators [4].
