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What is a trophic cascade?

Author: Asger LIndberg-Nielsen



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A trophic cascade is a phenomenon in ecology where changes in the abundance or behavior of one species at a particular trophic level in a food chain or food web lead to indirect effects on multiple other trophic levels for instance killer whales eataing sea otters who then no longer control the sea urchin population which then eat all the kelp away which has massive effects on the rest of the ecosystem


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A trophic cascade is a phenomenon in ecology where changes in the abundance or behavior of one species at a particular trophic level in a food chain or food web lead to indirect effects on multiple other trophic levels
for instance killer whales eataing sea otters who then no longer control the sea urchin population which then eat all the kelp away which has massive effects on the rest of the ecosystem
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