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Stephen Carpenter
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Director of the Center for Limnology, University of Wisconsin, Madison.
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Trophic cascade, an ecological phenomenon triggered by the addition or removal of top predators and involving reciprocal changes in the relative populations of predator and prey through a food chain, which often results in dramatic changes in ecosystem structure and nutrient cycling. In a…
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