Sentence examples for trophic cascade from inspiring English sources
noun
The secondary disruptions that go cascading through a system from which a keystone species has been removed.
This is known as a trophic cascade.
This restoration appeared to trigger a trait-mediated trophic cascade.
Such indirect trophic effects are known as a "trait-mediated trophic cascade".
Scientists call this sequence of impacts down the food chain a "trophic cascade".
For rewilding zealots, the "trophic cascade" initiated by the restoration of elite species may rescue them as well.
Darwin was also fascinated by the interaction of plants and animals and he carried out careful inventories of populations in the local fields which led him to conceive of the idea of a trophic cascade, in which fluctuations in species numbers have all sorts of unexpected effects," said Blaik.
Wolves in Yellowstone National Park, by Kevin Rushby Photograph Kevin Rushby Updatedd at 5.07pm BST 3.33pm BST Monbiot talks about "trophic cascades": ecosystems controlled not from the top down, but from the bottom up.
The consequences of the trophic cascades that are likely to follow such changes are yet to be fully explored.
Ants are keystone predators in terrestrial trophic cascades.
Predator density effects in this experiment provided additional evidence for trophic cascades.
Furthermore, overfishing can create trophic cascades in marine communities that cause similar declines in species richness.
