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For more than a century ecologists have been interested in population and community-level consequences of consumer foraging. More recently, papers such as those by Connell (1961), Brooks and Dodson (1965), Paine (1966), Janzen (1970); Harper (1969) and Dayton (1971) have been influential in focusing attention on the topic.
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Estes, J.A., Harrold, C. (1988). Sea Otters, Sea Urchins, and Kelp Beds: Some Questions of Scale. In: VanBlaricom, G.R., Estes, J.A. (eds) The Community Ecology of Sea Otters. Ecological Studies, vol 65. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-72845-7_6
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