Yale Study Offers Revolutionary View of Ecosystem Ecology.

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New Haven, Conn. -- Predators have considerably more influence than plants over how an ecosystem functions, according to a Yale study published Feb. 15 in Science that offers a revolutionary shift in thinking on the subject.

Environmental cages Environmental cages at Yale-Myers Forest in northeastern Connecticut

Grasshopper Grasshopper, Melanopuls femurrubrum

Jumping spider Jumping spider, Phidippus rimator

Nursery web spider Nursery web spider, Pisaurina mira

Ecosystem ecologists have long held that plants and their interaction with the soil...

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