Robert T. Paine

TL;DR: It is suggested that local animal species diversity is related to the number of predators in the system and their efficiency in preventing single species from monopolizing some important, limiting, requisite in the marine rocky intertidal.

TL;DR: This empirical work supports long-standing theory about the role of top-down forcing in ecosystems but also highlights the unanticipated impacts of trophic cascades on processes as diverse as the dynamics of disease, wildfire, carbon sequestration, invasive species, and biogeochemical cycles.

TL;DR: This list of scientists and lecturers from the United States and Canada who have contributed to the scientific literature over the past 25 years has been compiled.

TL;DR: It seems particularly opportune to discuss food webs and evolving views on their structure here for both their genesis and first modern treatment (Elton 1927) and much of their later development (May 1973; Pimm & Lawton 1978) has a decidedly British accent.

TL;DR: The most workable definition involves statements about the relative variability of population numbers in space and/or time, although limits on the extent of the spatial dimension are not usually stated, and collections of acceptable data through time are tedious to gather, and hence minimal.