This type of change is the result of a really cool phenomenon known as a trophic cascade. It’s an indirect effect predators have that extends downwards through the food web. In this context ...

Independent of the initial experimental abiotic conditions and the dominating copepod species, zooplankton caused order-of-magnitude changes in microbial functional groups in a clear community-wide ...

Trophic cascades, the effects of predators on herbivores and plants, have long been a topic of ecological interest. The study quantifies the strength of this phenomenon for the first time using ...