Ecologists have long recognized the importance of predators in structuring ecological systems, but recent research demonstrates that changes in predator richness – the diversity of predator species, genotypes, and functional assemblages in an ecosystem – may also strongly affect the composition of and population dynamics within ecological communities. In “Cascading effects of predator richness”, a [...]

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