Trends in Ecology & Evolution
Volume 15, Issue 11, 1 November 2000, Pages 473-475
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When is a trophic cascade a trophic cascade?

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Acknowledgements

We would like to thank P. Stapp, F. Sanchez-Pinero, M. Rose, A. Boulton and J. Vander Zanden for thought-provoking discussions and constructive criticism. We would also like to thank O. Schmitz for his thoughtful advice and encouragement, as well as M. Pace and two anonymous reviewers whose comments improved this paper. We acknowledge the support from NSF grants DEB9527888 and DEB9806657 to GAP and from an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship to ALWS.

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