Biosentients - Science Biology… etc

Predators have considerably more influence than plants over how an ecosystem functions, as per a Yale study published recently in Science. Note: The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) interviewed Oswald Schmitz for a story on this research. The interview is available on their site. The findings, as per the author, Oswald Schmitz, Oastler Professor of Population and Community Ecology at the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, are a "revolutionary" shift in thinking on the subject. Ecosystem ecologists have long held that plants and their interaction with the soil determine the type and abundance of herbivores and carnivores in an ecosystem. Schmitz's paper, "Effects of Predator Hunting Mode on Grassland Ecosystem Function," shows that the opposite is true........