bottom-up control of the food web
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A mode of control of trophic interactions by resources, in which organisms on each trophic level are food limited, as opposed to a top-down control (by predators), in which organisms at the top of food chains are food limited, and at successive lower levels, they are alternately predator, then food limited. |
Global assessment (1st work programme) | Power, 1992 |