Consumer diversity interacts with prey defenses to drive ecosystem function.
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...Although such synergistic effects of warming remain to be confirmed, these findings are consistent with a growing body of literature that shows how the full suppression of large seaweeds on reefs is mediated by increases in herbivore functional diversity and feeding complementarity among herbivores (18, 21, 27)....
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...Biodiversity promotes the function, stability, and productivity of ecosystems, as well as the services they provide to human societies (Balvanera et al. 2006, Cardinale et al. 2006, Worm et al. 2006)....
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...Consumers often have cascading effects on the structure and function of terrestrial, aquatic, and marine ecosystems (Pace et al. 1999, Estes et al. 2011)....
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...Our findings have worrisome conservation implications, because critical ecosystem processes may rapidly deteriorate when only one, or a few, key consumers are locally extirpated (Estes et al. 2011, O’Gorman et al. 2011, Bellwood et al. 2012)....
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...Consumers impact ecosystem function through topdown forcing (Ives et al. 2005, Duffy et al. 2007, Estes et al. 2011), and consumers are likely more vulnerable to localized extinction than primary producers (Duffy 2003), yet our understanding of how consumer diversity affects real-world ecosystems…...
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