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Bottom-up control
Causation & process
Regulation of populations or food-web structure through the availability or productivity of resources at lower trophic levels.
Hunter, M. D., & Price, P. W. (1992). Playing chutes and ladders: Heterogeneity and the relative roles of bottom-up and top-down forces in natural communities. Ecology, 73(3), 724–732.
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