Bottom‐up and top‐down controls on coral reef sponges: disentangling within‐habitat and between‐habitat processes
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Bottom-up and top-down controls on coral reef sponges: disentangling within-habitat and between-habitat processes.
Polarized debates about top-down vs. bottom-up control have given way to more nuanced understanding of control by both resources and consumers in many systems, but coral reef sponges have recently been asserted to differ from other groups in being controlled exclusively top-down. This assertion has been countered by reports of exclusively bottom-up control, with both conclusions based on studie...
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عنوان ژورنال: Ecology
سال: 2017
ISSN: 0012-9658,1939-9170
DOI: 10.1002/ecy.1754